Women & Irish Republicanism : A Bibliography
This is by no means a definitive list, but one that LGinnell posted on the IRBB a long time ago at my request... Over time I've come to read and own a number of these titles, and while some I appreciate more than others, it's a great, in her humble word "basic", starting point. A (Basic) Bibliography of publications / articles about Women and Irish Republicanism Historical When History was made: Women of 1916 By Ruth Taillon – Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications 1996 ISBN 0951422987 Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz By Amanda Sebestyn. Virago Press 1987 ISBN 0860687813 Constance Markievicz – Irish Revolutionary By Anne Haverty. Pandora 1988 ISBN 0863581617 Charlotte Despard – A Biography By Margaret Mulvihill. Pandora 1988 ISBN 0863582133 Unmanageable Revolutionaries By Margaret Ward. Brandon 1983 Revolutionary Woman: Kathleen Clarke 1878 – 1972 Edited by Helen Litton. O Brien Press 1991 Cumann na mBan and the Women of Ireland 1913 – 1972 By Lil Conlon. Kilkenny People 1969 Soul of Fire: A biography of Mary McSwiney By Charlotte H Fallon. Mercier Press 1986 There is a Bridge at Bandon: A Personal Account of the Irish War of Independence. By Kathleen Keyes McDonnell. Mercier Press 1972 Terrible Beauty: A life of Countess Markievicz By Diana Norman. Hodder & Stoughton 1988. Rebel Irishwomen By RM Fox. Dublin – Talbot Press 1937 Daughters of Erin By Elizabeth Coxhead. Secker & Warburg 1965. Maude Gonne By Sam Levenson. Cassell 1977. Women, Ideals and the Nation By Constance de Markievicz. Inighnidhe na h-Eireann, Dublin 1907. Doing My Bit for Ireland By Margaret Skinnider. New YORK – Century 1917. 6 Counties Tell them everything : a sojourn in the prison of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth By Margaretta D'Arcy, - London : Pluto, 1981 ISBN 0861043499 Hard Time: Armagh Gaol 1971-1986 By Raymond Murray. Mercier Press 1998 ISBN 1856352234 Shoot the women first By Eileen MacDonald. - London : Fourth Estate, 1991. ISBN 1872180639 Peggy Deery: A Derry Family at War By Nell McCafferty. Attic Press 1988 ISBN 0946211558 To Take Arms - A year in the Provisional IRA By Maria McGuire. MacMillan 1973. SBN 333145062 No Faith in the System By Sister Sarah Clarke. Mercier Press 1995 ISBN 1856351602 Only the Rivers Run Free. Northern Ireland: The Women’s War By Eileen Fairweather, Roisin McDonough and Melanie McFadyean. Pluto Press 1984 ISBN 0861046684 In Journals, Newspapers, etc. "A Cumann na mBan Recalls Easter Week" by Eilis Bean Uí Chonail. In ‘The Capuchin Annual’, 1966. "The History of Cumann na mBan" by Eithne Coyle. In An Phoblacht, 8th April 1933. "The Women on Easter Week" by Nora O Daly. In "An t-Oglach" 3rd April 1926. "Cumann na mBan in the GPO" By M Reynolds. In "An t-Oglach" 27th March 1926. "Excerpts from the Diary on the Asgard" By Mary Spring Rice In "Sinn Féin" 26th July + 2nd August 1924. Maire Comerford: Women in Struggle Edited by Pat McGlynn In ‘Eiri Amach na Casca’. Republican Publications 1986.

YAY LGinnell... you are my She-ro :wink: And even though you are only a guy Saer... thanks for posting this list. just reading this one right now: When History was made: Women of 1916 By Ruth Taillon – Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications 1996 ISBN 0951422987 It is excellent, and should be required reading for everybody on here. In fact, I am assigning it. It adds a feel of the chaotic nature of the rising that I have not seen in many other accounts. I don't usually recommend a book 'til I am finished with it, but I am making an exception. Besides, it is likely I'll be finished by morning, since I can't seem to put it down. 8)

the list is great ties in with the request below on another thread but kowledge of Cumann na mBan must be very scarce among readers of Irish history or so it would seem?

go raibh mile maith agat a chara womens roles within the movment in its broadest sense has been greatly underwritten and their contribution greatly undervalued due to the dominance of males with backward attitudes and mentalities who have maintained their grip on power within the potentially progressive movements there have been. The screen writer for "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" commented that he consciously focused on the important role played by women in that particular phase of the struggle, they put themselves at great risk and fought tooth and nail for the cause of Irish freedom but as has been the case til this day meglomaniac males dominate and maintain themselves in positions were they see their position as "me Tarzan you Jane" and they keep 'little women' in their place the struggle to free Ireland is intertwined with the emancipation of women and the freedom from daily exploitation of both sexes within the labour market. Until such times as republicans see this then they are destined to constantly repeat the failures of the past. Adh Mor