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Fearless Woman Margaret Ward

Fearless Woman By Margaret Ward

Fearless Woman by Margaret Ward

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This full-length biographical study of one of the most important women in Irish political life in the 20th century is now reissued by UCD Press. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, trailblazing feminist and part of a pioneering generation, played a significant role in the early Irish Republic.

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Fearless Woman: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Feminism and the Irish Revolution by Margaret Ward

This full-length biographical study - substantially rewritten and updated - of one of the most important women in Irish political life in the 20th century is now reissued by UCD Press. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, part of a pioneering generation, played a significant role in the early Irish Republic. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington was a leading figure in the suffrage movement, she was an activist in the anti-war movement of 1914-18 and was an executive member of Sinn Fein. She opposed the Free State and provided consistent support for women's resistance to anti-women measures enacted by both Cumann na nGaedheal and Fianna Fail. Her later career saw her as an electoral candidate to the Dail in 1943 and she proved herself fearless in her fight for justice, confronting both the British Prime Minister and the President of the United States of America. Incorporating new archival research and featuring an array of newly discovered images, Ward brings to light previously unpublished material about Hanna's personal life: her relationship with her husband and her role as a single parent. This timely revised edition serves to highlight the fascinating life of a pivotal figure in feminist, labour and nationalist movements in Ireland.

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Ward's book offers a vision of Irish feminism in its complexity, revealing the subtler and more nuanced relationships that crossed ideological differences, as well as the friendships and alliances among feminists in Ireland, England, America and Europe. Through close and devoted study of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, scholars may see how all the theatrics of resistance - choreographies, stage business, the orchestration of shots, interruptions, heckling - is developed and transmuted. She remains a powerful feminist ancestor to study and admire. Lucy McDiarmid, Irish Literary Supplement; It takes a book like this to remind us how women have been written out of mainstream Irish history. In this biography of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington she draws out of oblivion the history of Irish feminism in the first decades of this century. When one reads Margaret Ward's account of that period it is astounding that such consistent political action was omitted from Irish history. Ethna Viney, Irish Times ;Margaret Ward's biography of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington reveals her to have been a remarkable woman in her own right who established a militant suffrage movement in Ireland, supported the organization of women workers and went on to become a significant figure in Sinn Fein. Throughout her life Hanna faced the difficult task of balancing the claims of her feminism and her commitment to Irish independence. Margaret Ward gives a balanced account, sifting through stories and myths. Sheila Rowbotham, The Times; Margaret Ward is one of a number of women historians who have been engaged in excavating the history of women in Ireland and the history of Irish feminism. This biography is an important contribution to that process. Catriona Crowe, Sunday Tribune; Margaret Wards Fearless Woman, a well-researched and highly readable biography of the feminist and latter-day convert to Irish Republicanism Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, exemplifies the positive attributes of the recent crop of Irish womens history. - Aidan Beatty, Journal of Modern History, February 2024.

About Margaret Ward

Dr Margaret Ward is a well-known feminist historian. Her recently published work, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: Suffragette and Sinn Feiner (UCD Press 2017) has been widely acclaimed. Her books include Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism (Pluto Press 1983) and a biography of Maud Gonne. She is currently honorary senior lecturer in History with the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's University of Belfast.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Family Tree Chronology of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington's Life and Times Suffrage Friends and Colleagues of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington 1Early Years 1877-1900 2The Making of a Feminist 1900-1903 3Partnership 1903-1908 4A Feminist Mother 1908-1910 5The Stone and The Shillelagh 1910-1912 6Outlaws 1912-1914 7'Rolling Up the Map of Suffrage' 1914-1916 8Death of a Pacifist 1916 9Challenging the Empire 1917-1918 10A Feminist Sinn Feiner 1918-1921 11Republican Envoy 1921-1925 12The Struggle Continues 1925-1932 13Feminism, Republicanism, Communism 1932-1937 14'The Seeds Beneath the Snow' 1937-1946 Notes Bibliography Index

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NPB9781910820407
9781910820407
1910820407
Fearless Woman: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Feminism and the Irish Revolution by Margaret Ward
Margaret Ward
New
Paperback
University College Dublin Press
2019-07-15
400
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