No ordinary women : Irish female activists in the revolutionary years, 1900-1923 /

McCoole, Sinéad.

No ordinary women : Irish female activists in the revolutionary years, 1900-1923 / Sinéad McCoole. - Dublin : O'Brien, 2003. - 288 p. : ill. 25 cm

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-278) and index.

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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Kilmainham Gaol--History.


Women political prisoners--Ireland--Biography
Women revolutionaries--Ireland--Biography
Women revolutionaries--History--Ireland--20th century
Women prisoners--History--Ireland--20th century
Women prisoners--Ireland--Biography
Women--Political activity--History--Ireland--20th century
European history
Gender studies: women & girls
Revolutionary groups & movements


Ireland--History--Civil War, 1922-1923--Biography.
Ireland--History--Easter Rising, 1916--Biography.
Ireland--History--1901-1910--Biography.
Ireland--History--1910-1921--Biography.