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No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years

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No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years - McCoole, Sinead, and Ward, Margaret (Introduction by)
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Women in the fight for Ireland's independence risked loss of life and family for their cause. Here are the biographies of sixty-five women activists, along with lists of those imprisoned after the 1916 Rising and the more than seven hundred women arrested during the Irish Civil War. They came from every class in society--titled ladies, shop assistants, doctors, housewives, laundry workers, artists, and teachers. Some were married with children, others widowed, and some were mere schoolgirls. Using historical records, ...

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No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years 2003, University of Wisconsin Press

ISBN-13: 9780299195007

Hardcover