Unmanageable Revolutionaries by Margaret Ward

Unmanageable Revolutionaries by Margaret Ward

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.

'A real contribution to understanding revolutionary Ireland and, even more importantly, to our understanding of feminism as an aid to arriving at historical truth' -- Times Literary Supplement

Margaret Ward is a Research Fellow in History at the Bath College of Higher Education.

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ISBN 13	9780745310848
ISBN 10	0745310842
Titel	Unmanageable Revolutionaries
Autor	Margaret Ward
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Pluto Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1995-11-20
Seitenanzahl	320
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