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The history books left them out. This book puts Cork's women back at the centre of the long fight, from Nano Nagle running hidden Catholic schools under the Penal Laws to the women who carried the revolution of 1916 to 1923. You will meet the Wallace sisters, whose shop was a rebel message centre, Mary MacSwiney, who took up her brother's cause, and the prisoners and hunger strikers the new state chose to forget. Nine chapters that recover a record almost lost. Illustrated. Digital download (PDF).
What's inside:
Prologue: Absent from the Record
1. Nano Nagle and the Hidden Schools
2. The Land League and the Sham
3. Cumann na mBan and the Work
4. The Wallace Sisters
5. The Women of the Brigades
6. Eileen Mac Curtain
7. Mary MacSwiney
8. The Women's War
9. What Was Owed
Epilogue: The Record
35 pages, illustrated.
From the opening pages:
In the 1940s and 1950s the Irish Military Archives set out to record what the revolution had been like for the people who made it. The Bureau of Military History gathered witness statements from more than 1,700 people who had been active in the republican movement between 1913 and 1921, and those statements are now the central documentary record of what it meant to fight in Ireland's revolution. Women gave roughly 150 of them.
The gap reflects the choices the bureau's interviewers made about whom to approach rather than how involved the women were, along with the reticence of many of the women themselves when asked to speak, and the assumption built into the new state's whole way of remembering its origins: that women's contributions were supporting work rather than real work, and so mattered less to the historical record.
The history books left them out. This book puts Cork's women back at the centre of the long fight, from Nano Nagle running hidden Catholic schools under the Penal Laws to the women who carried the revolution of 1916 to 1923. You will meet the Wallace sisters, whose shop was a rebel message centre, Mary MacSwiney, who took up her brother's cause, and the prisoners and hunger strikers the new state chose to forget. Nine chapters that recover a record almost lost. Illustrated. Digital download (PDF).
What's inside:
Prologue: Absent from the Record
1. Nano Nagle and the Hidden Schools
2. The Land League and the Sham
3. Cumann na mBan and the Work
4. The Wallace Sisters
5. The Women of the Brigades
6. Eileen Mac Curtain
7. Mary MacSwiney
8. The Women's War
9. What Was Owed
Epilogue: The Record
35 pages, illustrated.
From the opening pages:
In the 1940s and 1950s the Irish Military Archives set out to record what the revolution had been like for the people who made it. The Bureau of Military History gathered witness statements from more than 1,700 people who had been active in the republican movement between 1913 and 1921, and those statements are now the central documentary record of what it meant to fight in Ireland's revolution. Women gave roughly 150 of them.
The gap reflects the choices the bureau's interviewers made about whom to approach rather than how involved the women were, along with the reticence of many of the women themselves when asked to speak, and the assumption built into the new state's whole way of remembering its origins: that women's contributions were supporting work rather than real work, and so mattered less to the historical record.
