The Politics of Gender in the Irish Free State, 1922–1937

Valiulis, Maryann Gialanella

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“…The curation and display of ‘relics’ (sacred objects with their own agency) associated with those who had lost their lives in the conflict played an important role in turning the tide of popular opinion in the aftermath of the Easter Rising – support for the rebels had initially been low among the general public. Likewise, the objects made for female relatives and friends can be implicated in the extraordinary reversal in the position of women in the Free State and the early years of the Republic: in contrast to the increasingly active role that women had played in the world of politics, art and public discourse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the institutionalisation of the relationship between the state and the Catholic church re-established a highly conservative vision of femininity that relocated women firmly in the home (Valiulis, 1995). In this sense, then, both people and objects were mutually implicated in the shaping of history.…”

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‘A good Irishman should blush every time he sees a penny’: Gender, nationalism and memory in Irish internment camp craftwork, 1916–1923

Brück

2015

Journal of Material Culture

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General rightsThis document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Full terms of use are available: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/pure/about/ebr-terms harps reveal the tensions inherent in discourses of religious identity and cultural nationalism, while the reworking of prison-issue objects illustrates how a sense of personal agency was maintained in a profoundly disempowering context. Macramé handbags and children's reins gave internees a continued sense of involvement in and control over their homes and relationships, while mantle borders, tea cosies and table centres conjured idealised notions of domesticity. Fundamentally, the creation of such objects allowed prisoners to engage with the troubling and often contradictory experiences of masculinity that lay at the heart of camp life.

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‘A good Irishman should blush every time he sees a penny’: Gender, nationalism and memory in Irish internment camp craftwork, 1916–1923

Brück

2015

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“…The latter point is well illustrated by Frank Aiken's attitude to pensions for Cumann na mBan. 101 The hostility towards Ireland's revolutionary women, bordering on misogyny in the cases of P.S. O'Hegarty and Seán Ó Faoláin, that resulted from Cumann na mBan's rejection of the Treaty should be recognised as part of the wider context of women's struggle to have their revolutionary legitimacy recognised by the pension assessors.…”

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Compensating Irish Female Revolutionaries, 1916–1923

Coleman

2016

Women's History Review

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. She is currently working on a detailed study of revolutionary veterans in independent Ireland and on a number of projects related to the centenary commemorations of Irish independence.1 I am grateful to my colleagues Prof. Mary O'Dowd and Dr Elaine Farrell, and to the external peerreviewers, for insightful comments and suggestions on this article. 2 AbstractThe newly released Irish Military Service Pensions Collection offers the most comprehensive opportunity to examine the role of women in the Irish revolution (1916)(1917)(1918)(1919)(1920)(1921)(1922)(1923) or in any comparable nationalist revolution. It is also an extremely useful source of evidence for an emerging historiographical trend of tracing the post-revolutionary lives of female veterans by examining the award of service pensions to them by that state. This article will examine the role played by gender in the award of such pensions, the economic and financial significance of them in a state that had under-developed welfare provision and the importance of them as a symbolic recognition of women's roles in helping to achieve Irish independence. It also compares the post-conflict experience of Irish female revolutionary veterans with women who were involved in comparable international military conflicts.3

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Irish Women and the Great War

Walsh¹

2020

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The Politics of Gender in the Irish Free State, 1922–1937

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‘A good Irishman should blush every time he sees a penny’: Gender, nationalism and memory in Irish internment camp craftwork, 1916–1923

‘A good Irishman should blush every time he sees a penny’: Gender, nationalism and memory in Irish internment camp craftwork, 1916–1923

Compensating Irish Female Revolutionaries, 1916–1923

Irish Women and the Great War

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