No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years, 1900-23

No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years, 1900-23

Sinead McCoole
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Author:  Sinead McCoole
Condition:  Used, Like New
Format:  Paperback
Pages:  288
Publisher:  O'Brien Press Ltd
Year:  2003
ISBN:  9780862788131

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the dustjacket has experienced some very minor shelfwear; otherwise new and unread

The story of the Irish revolutionary period in the early twentieth century from the perspective of female activists. This book highlights a time when vast numbers of Irish women were politicised and imprisoned for their beliefs, with a special emphasis on one prison, Kilmainham Gaol. The women portrayed in the book represent all walks of life: shop assistants, doctors, housewives, laundry workers, artists, teachers. There were married women, mothers, single and widowed women and even mere schoolchildren. They played a full role in the revolutions, acting as spies, couriers, snipers, gun-runners, medics, and endured the full rigours of prison life.

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