An Ongoing Injustice: State Responses to ‘Historical’ Abuses in Ireland
By Maeve O’Rourke This is an adapted extract from an essay by Maeve O’Rourke in the recently published book REDRESS: Ireland’s …
Mother Jones: ‘the most dangerous Irish woman in America’
By John Joe McGinley Mary Harris Jones, a proud Cork woman, was a teacher, seamstress, labour activist and union organiser. A champion …
Podcast: Irish Revolutionary Women with Liz Gillis and Mary McAuliffe
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney speak to Liz Gillis and Dr Mary McAuliffe on the republican women and Cumman nn mBan, the …
Hair Cutting and Women in the War of Independence
By Margaret Ward As a result of the disturbing addition to the War of Independence exhibition at Collins Barracks of the remnants …
Book Review: Irish women and nationalism: soldiers, new women and wicked hags
By Louise Ryan and Margaret Ward (eds) Published by Irish Academic Press. (Newbridge, 2019) Reviewer: Aaron Ó Maonaigh Originally published in …
Book Review: Markievicz: Prison Letters & Rebel Writings
By Constance Markievicz (edited by Lindie Naughton) Published by Irish Academic Press (Newbridge, 2018) Reviewer: Daniel Murray “It is awfully funny being …
‘A faithful soldier of the Republic’: The story of Jinny Shanahan
By John Dorney In 1916, during the Easter insurrection in Dublin city, a young Irish Citizen Army woman was one of party …