Sarah Celia Harrison: Suffragist and Political Pioneer
January 2022
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Sarah Celia Harrison: Artist, Social Campaigner and City Councillor
Sarah Celia Harrison, Irish suffrage history, Irish feminist history
Peace and protest in Ireland: women's activism in Ireland, 1918-1937
December 2020
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Journal article
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Diplomacy and Statecraft
Political violence was a fact of Irish life in the early twentieth century, exacerbated by the sacrificial and martial cultures that grew out of nationalist and unionist politics. The Irish women’s movement developed in this context, adjusting to the demands made on activists by these particular circumstances, and playing a vital role in all the major political movements of the era. Buoyed by the achievement of partial women’s enfranchisement in 1918, Irish women prepared to play an enhanced role in the formal life of the country. However, they quickly found that the rights they believed they had won were less than secure, and they turned to new and existing strategies in their efforts to adjust to the reality of independent Ireland.
FFR
Suffrage and citizenship in Ireland, 1912-1918
January 2019
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Internet publication
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Sappho to Suffrage: Women Who Dared
December 2018
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Journal article
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The Ephemerist
Feminist Political Thought and Activism in Revolutionary Ireland, c. 1880–1918
November 2017
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Journal article
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Feminist thought and activism was a feature of Irish political life in the late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Because the women’s suffrage campaign coincided with and was at times influenced by wider debates on the national question, it has often been understood almost entirely in relation to Irish nationalism and unionism, and usually in the specific context of acute political crisis such as the third Home Rule. The Irish suffrage movement should instead be understood both in terms of wider political developments and in particular Irish contexts. This article surveys aspects of feminist political culture with a particular emphasis on the way that nationalist Irish women articulated and negotiated their involvement in the women’s suffrage movement. It argues that the relationship between the two was both more nuanced and dynamic than has been allowed, and that opposition to women’s activism should be understood in structural and cultural terms as well as in broadly political ones. The relationship should also be understood in longer historical terms than is usual as it also evolved in the context of broader political and social shifts and campaigns, some of which predated the third Home Rule crisis.
New issues and old: Women and politics in Ireland, 1914-18’
November 2016
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Journal article
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Women's History Review
This article explores the experiences of politically active Irish women during the First World War. Focusing on political campaigns including women's suffrage, nationalist activism and pacifism, it argues that Irish women were particularly well placed to respond to the demands of total war by virtue of their existing political commitments and the highly incendiary condition of Irish political life in 1914. Although the outbreak of war complicated relationships between female activists and obliged some of them to take very public stands on the efficacy of war, feminist activism continued in the period 1914 to 1918 and was in many ways strengthened by the opportunities provided by it.
Uncertain Futures Essays about the Irish Past for Roy Foster
August 2016
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Book
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'Constance Markievicz'
October 2015
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Chapter
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1916 Portraits and Lives
This book is a selection of 40 articles from the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Irish Biography, dealing with 42 people whose careers, in one way or another, were deeply involved with the Easter rising of 1916.The biographies include ...
Biography & Autobiography
'Waging War on the Streets': the Irish Women Patrol, 1914-22
November 2014
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Journal article
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Irish Historical Studies
Female activists across the United Kingdom had insisted from the late nineteenth century that the employment of women police who would deal with problems specific to women and children could help to address pressing social questions, or at least to offer women some protection within the entirely male criminal justice system. Their campaign for women police was connected to similar demands for the employment of female prison visitors and inspectors and, later, jurors and lawyers, and it was predicated on the idea that neither prisons nor courts afforded women fair and equal treatment under the law. Early victories included the appointment of police matrons and searchers, but the resistance of police authorities and most other civil servants to female officers remained solid into the early twentieth century, feminist campaigning notwithstanding. The outbreak of the First World War, however, provided an ideal context for renewed activism on the issue, not least because commentators across the British Isles predicted that the apparent inability of girls and young women to resist the lure of uniformed men would lead to outbreaks of war-induced sexual promiscuity and a decline in standards of public behaviour.
Women and War in Ireland, 1914-18
January 2014
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Journal article
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History Ireland
Irish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918
December 2013
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Book
This is a major new history of the experiences and activities of Irish nationalist women in the early twentieth century, from learning and buying Irish to participating in armed revolt. Using memoirs, reminiscences, letters and diaries, Senia Pašeta explores the question of what it meant to be a female nationalist in this volatile period, revealing how Irish women formed nationalist, cultural and feminist groups of their own as well as how they influenced broader political developments. She shows that women's involvement with Irish nationalism was intimately bound up with the suffrage movement as feminism offered an important framework for women's political activity. She covers the full range of women's nationalist activism from constitutional nationalism to republicanism, beginning in 1900 with the foundation of Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Ireland) and ending in 1918 with the enfranchisement of women, the collapse of the Irish Party and the ascendancy of Sinn Fein.
History
Another Class? Women and Higher Education in Ireland 1870-1909
January 2010
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Chapter
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Politics, Society and the Middle Class in Modern Ireland
Dissension, denominationalism and deep division characterised the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century debate about reform of higher education in Ireland. The establishment of the non-denominational Queen’s Colleges in 1845 marked the beginning of the protracted and sometimes bitter Irish University debate which claimed the attention of the most powerful forces in Ireland: the Catholic hierarchy, successive British governments and lobbyists of varied denominational and philosophical stripes, all of whom understood that its role in the development of the expanding Irish middle classes was a matter of the highest importance.
History
Women and Civil Society: Feminist Responses to the Irish Constitution of 1937
January 2010
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Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions
Thomas Kettle: political activist, journalist, orator, poet, essayist, lawyer, nationalist MP, professor, recruiter, soldier and casualty of war. Born on 9 February 1880, he was killed in the opening minutes of the allied invasion of Ginchy on 9 September 1916, having insisted on leading his men into battle. A leader of the younger generation of constitutional nationalists in his own time, he was all but forgotten as a result of the radicalisation of Irish politics after 1916. His memory was largely kept alive by studies of Ireland's participation in the Great War and by his final poem, written for his daughter Betty, which has appeared in several collections of War poetry. But Thomas Kettle was more than a soldier and recruiter.Although he did not always choose the 'right side', Kettle in fact had a hand in nearly every major political struggle in early twentieth-century Ireland. His struggles with alcoholism and depression overshadowed his great promise, ensuring that his biography is as much a story of wasted potential as it is of great achievement.
Biography & Autobiography
Women in the National University of Ireland
September 2008
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Chapter
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The National University of Ireland, 1908 - 2008
The National University of Ireland has played a key role in Irish life since its foundation in 1908. This beautifully illustrated book celebrates its centenary by looking at its origins in the Royal University, and further back in the Queen's Colleges, the Catholic University and St Patrick's College, Maynooth. A distinguished group of conributors examines formative influences, especially the role of the Irish language movement and the campaign to include women; the relationship between the NUI and its Constituent Colleges (more recently Constituent Universities); the contribution of the four Chancellors that have presided over its affairs, and the evolving roles of the Senate, the Registrar, the Recognised Colleges and the graduates body, or Convocation.The challenges posed by the transformation of Irish education since 1967, and particularly by the 1997 Universities Act are analysed. The valuable NUI Archive is listed and a series of Appendices provide details of office-holders, members of Senate, and of NUI Awards and Scholarships.
Education
The Open Secret of Ireland
January 2006
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Scholarly edition
"The Open Secret of Ireland", published in 1912, consists of articles primarily focused on Home Rule, offering both historical and contemporary analyses. The collection includes three articles focused on Unionism, particularly on Ulster Unionism, and Kettle's description of 'The Hallucination of Ulster' provides a fascinating insight into nationalist ideas about the fragility of the unionist bloc and the unreasonableness of their cause. This revealing and intriguing collection offers many insights into the motivations of the old Home Rule generation, convinced that their day had come and utterly unaware of the radical course Irish politics were to take in the next ten years. This edition includes an original introduction by John Redmond. It contains a new introduction by Senia Paseta.
Thomas Kettle, Home Rule, Irish Nationalism, Irish Parliamentary Party
Censorship and its critics in the Irish Free State 1922-1932
November 2003
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Journal article
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Past and Present: A Journal of Historical Studies
Modern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
March 2003
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Book
Modern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction attempts to answer the Irish Question. The term has become something of a catch-all, a convenient way to encompass numerous issues and developments which pertain to the political, social, and economic history of modern Ireland. No other issue brought down as many nineteenth-century governments and no comparable twentieth-century dilemma has matched its ability to frustrate the attempts of British cabinets to find a solution; this inability to find a lasting answer to the Irish Question is especially striking when seen in the context of the massive shifts in British foreign policy brought about by two world wars, decolonization, and the cold war.
History
Ireland and the Great War 'A War to Unite Us All'?
November 2002
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Book
This volume explores the immediate and continuing impact of the war on Ireland and analyses the effects on Irish national identity and political violence in Ireland.
History
Thomas Kettle: 'An Irish soldier in the army of Europe'?
November 2002
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Chapter
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Ireland and the Great War: A War to Unite Us All'?
An Irish Soldier in the Army of Europe
January 2002
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Chapter
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Ireland and the Great War: ‘A War to Unite Us All?
The Catholic hierarchy and the Irish university question, 1880-1908
April 2000
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Journal article
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History: the journal of the Historical Association
The ‘Irish university question’, as it came to be known, claimed the attention of the most powerful forces in Ireland: the Catholic church, British legislators and influential lay people, all of whom were aware of its potential impact on its beneficiaries, the future ruling class of Ireland. This article questions the simplistic terms in which the Irish university question is conventionally understood; it challenges the notion that the issue was simply a conflict between a succession of unyielding British governments and an intransigent Catholic hierarchy which refused to give up its demand for a state-funded Catholic university. This understanding of the issue ignores the significant lay contribution to the debate and also obscures the intricacies of a highly complex political and social question. The Irish university question in fact prompted numerous attempted settlements, bitter debate and deep dissension within the Catholic hierarchy. It also led eventually to unprecedented compromise when all the major participants in the debate agreed finally in 1908 to the establishment of two new universities which reflected political and religious divisions in Ireland.
Ireland's last Home Rule Generation: The Decline of Constitutional Nationalism in Ireland, 1916-30
January 2000
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Chapter
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Ireland: The Politics of Independence, 1922-1949
We all took it for granted that if Home Rule was achieved, we would be among the politicians of the new Ireland. A Home Rule Parliament in College Green in those days would, no doubt, have been dominated by the Irish Party, which would have earned the credit for its establishment. We, in the College, had many connections with the Irish Party…We all confidently expected that in a short time we would be exercising our oratory, not in the dingy precincts of the old Physics Theatre in 86 [Earlsfort Terrace], but in the ‘Old House in College Green’. It was because of this hope that we took our debates so seriously. We had heard that future prime ministers were picked out because of their performances at the Oxford Union, and we believed that, when the chair at the ‘L. & H.’ was taken by distinguished visitors, such as John Dillon, some future Irish Prime Minster might attract influential attention if his oratory aroused sufficient admiration. Debating took such a large part of our energies that I remember Arthur Cox saying to me that there were only three positions for which we were being fitted by our education – prime minister, leader of the opposition and Speaker of the House of Commons.1
Nationalist responses to two royal visits to Ireland, 1900 and 1903
November 1999
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Journal article
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Irish Historical Studies
In July 1903 Maud Gonne hung a black petticoat from the window of her Dublin home, insulting her unionist neighbours and provoking what became known as ‘the battle of Coulson Avenue’. Aided by nationalist friends, athletes from Cumann na nGaedheal and her sturdy housekeeper, she defended her ‘flag’ against police and irate neighbours. Gonne’s lingerie — allegedly a mark of respect for the recently deceased pope — flew in stark and defiant contrast to the numerous Union Jacks which lined her street in honour of King Edward VII’s visit to Ireland. This episode heralded a month of spectacular protest which polarised nationalist opinion. Like the visit to Dublin of Queen Victoria in 1900, King Edward’s tour provoked both enormous public interest and rivalry between various Irish institutions which vied to express their loyalty to the crown. But the royal tours also instigated fierce debate within the nationalist community and highlighted the ever deepening rifts between constitutional nationalism and ‘advanced’ nationalism.
Before the Revolution: Nationalism, Social Change and Ireland’s Catholic Elite, 1879-1922.
January 1999
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Book
Although much has been written about the impact of developing separatist thought on early twentieth century Irish politics, little is known about Ireland's last Home Rule generation whose expectations were shattered by the revolutionary events of 1916-22. Before the Revolution seeks to redress this imbalance by looking at the influence of education, employment, constitutional politics and wider political associations on the evolution of a new Catholic elite. Gender and class are two important focuses of the study. The experience of employment, membership of political and cultural associations, and the pursuit of entertainment are used to describe the development of this new stratum of modern Irish society.This book explores the developing influence of Catholic intellectuals - both men and women - in Irish politics during the era before the First World War and the Easter Rising, using the prism of the Irish university question and the development of secondary schools. By profiling a cross-section of representative groups and associations, Paseta challenges the accepted view that Gaelicist rhetoric and 'advanced' nationalist politics predominated among politically-minded students.This study also chronicles - for the first time - the development of self-consciously Catholic organisations in response to the pervasive idea that the professions actively discriminated against the majority religion
These are the People Whom Some Call Disloyal’: Nationalist Responses to Two Royal Visits to Ireland, 1900 and 1903