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In this text, 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. 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 uprisings 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, intervi

Author

Louise Ryan, Margaret Ward, Ward, Margaret

Publisher

Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 2)

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781788550970

Subjects

History, Science, Political Science