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Add to BagThis collection of documents enables some of the women who took part in the movement for Irish national independence to be heard in their own voices. Through their writings these women express their hopes and dreams, their criticisms and their disappointments, their terrors and their refusal to accept defeat. This is their voice as they explained themselves in autobiographies, letters and speeches. In the world of dusty archives, files of manuscripts and the intricacies of microfiche and microfilm, these voices may have become lost or overlooked. But through the painstaking research of the editor layers of fascinating primary source material are once again available to teachers of Irish history and general readers alike. Maud Gonne, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Constance de Markievicz are among the better known contributors, but the voices of lesser-known witnesses to this formative period of Irish history prove to be just as rich and illuminating.
About the Editor: Margaret Ward is a leading Irish historian. She is the author of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: A Life, Unmanageable Revolutionaries and Maud Gonne: A Life, as well as many scholarly articles. She is currently assistant director of Democratic Dialogue, a Belfast-based think-tank.
Softback: 1995
Printed Pages: 208
Size: 216 x 138mm
ISBN: 9781855941014
