In popular memory, Maud Gonne is little more than a great beauty with a flamboyant lifestyle, who spurned the love of W. B. Yeats. Margaret Ward gives us, in this sympathetic yet balanced portrait, a new perspective upon Maud Gonne as a significant figure in Irish politics and as an independent and truly remarkable woman.

Maud Gonne: Ireland's Joan of Arc

Ward, Margaret

Pandora Pr

Offers a look at the English woman who fought for Ireland and was jailed for dissent, appeared on stage as Yeats' Cathleen ni Houlihan, raised a son who would win the Nobel Peace Prize, and performed on radio at the age of 84

Maud Gonne: A Life

Harpercollins

The Family Dynamic : A Canadian Perspective

Nelson/Thomson Learning

The family dynamic: A canadian perspective

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

ITP Nelson

Unmanageable Revolutionaries describes how Irish women (despite their frequent omission from the history books) have always played a key role in the struggle for independence. The author focuses on three pivotal Irish nationalist women's organisations the Ladies Land League, Inghinidhe na hEireann and Cumann na mBan - to show that women have always been a driving force in Irish political history.

Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism

History

Europe

Pluto Press

This text describes how Irish women (despite their frequent omission from the history books) have always played a key role in the struggle for independence. The author depicts the role women have played in the "Irish struggle" from 1881 to the present day, particularly in the crucial post-1916 period, and in doing so underlines the irony whereby "fellow" nationalists, despite their common struggle, remained factionalized. The book focuses on three pivotal Irish nationalist women's organizations - the Ladies Land League, Inghinidhe na hEireann and Cumann na mBan - and shows how, despite the inherent differences between the three movements, a salient theme emerges, namely the underwhelming extent to which Irish women have been recognized as a driving force in Irish political history. Since Mary Robinson's election as president, women are slowly starting to acquire a higher profile in Irish politics - a trend most clearly marked by the "feminization" of Sinn Fein. This book provides a study of past neglect, and of the growing recognition of women's role in Irish politics.

Describing women's fight for Ireland's independence from 1881 to the present day, Unmanageable Revolutionaries focuses on three Irish nationalist women's organisations - the Ladies Land League, Inghinidhe na hEireann and the Cumann na mBan. Although all three are very different, a common theme emerges - that women have never been seen as an independent force in Irish political history. Mobilised in times of crisis, they have been consistently excluded from positions of influence. This, despite minor concessions, remains true today. Now reissued with a new introduction, Unmanageable Revolutionaries remains a classic study of the role of the women's movement in modern Irish history.

Pluto Pr

Studies of Irish nationalism have been primarily historical in scope and overwhelmingly male in content. Too often the 'shadow of the gunman' has dominated. Little recognition has been given to the part women have played, yet over the centuries they have undertaken a variety of roles - as combatants, prisoners, writers and politicians. In this exciting new book the full range of women's contribution to the Irish nationalist movement is explored by writers whose interests range from the historical and sociological to the literary and cultural. From the little-known contribution of women to the earliest nationalist uprising of the 1600s and 1700s, to their active participation in the republican campaigns of the twentieth century, different chapters consider the changing contexts of female militancy and the challenge this has posed to masculine images and structures.Using a wide range of sources, including textual analysis, archives and documents, newspapers and autobiographies, interviews and action research, the authors examine sensitive and highly complex debates around women's role in situations of conflict.At the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship, this is a major contribution to wider feminist debates about the gendering of nationalism, raising questions about the extent to which women's rights, demands and concerns can ever be fully accommodated within nationalist movement.

Irish Women and Nationalism: Soldiers, New Women and Wicked Hags ~ New Edition

Ryan, Louise

Irish Academic Press

The entries in this book are based on an encyclopedic approach, each full of interest and information, as they chart the steadily evolving status of women and the job opportunities open to them. Female Occupations is aimed especially at family historians, and contains over 300 entries. Each of these has some explanation of what the job entailed, the historical setting, and examples or stories of women who were involved with it.

Female Occupations: Women's Employment from 1850 - 1950 (Family History)

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Countryside Books

Product Description In Unmanageable Revolutionaries, Margaret Ward describes how Irish women (despite their frequent omission from the history books) have always played a key role in the struggle for independence. Ward depicts the role women have played in the Irish struggle from 1881 to the present day, particularly in the crucial post-1916 period, and in doing so underlines the irony whereby fellow nationalists, despite their common struggle, remained factionalized. The book focuses on three pivotal Irish nationalist women's organizations—the Ladies Land League, Inghinidhe na hEireann and Cumann na mBan—and shows how, despite the inherent differences between the three movements, a salient theme emerges, namely the underwhelming extent to which Irish women have been recognized as a driving force in Irish political history. Book Description Focusing on three pivotal Irish nationalist women's organizations, the book explores how Irish women have been a driving force in Irish political history without much recognition.

Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism, 1880-1980

Arlen House

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Maud Gonne: Ireland's Joan of Arc

Maud Gonne: A Life

The Family Dynamic : A Canadian Perspective

The family dynamic: A canadian perspective

Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism

Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism

Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism

Irish Women and Nationalism: Soldiers, New Women and Wicked Hags ~ New Edition

Female Occupations: Women's Employment from 1850 - 1950 (Family History)

Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism, 1880-1980