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Ordinary Women
Irish Female Activists
in the Revolutionary Years 1900–1923
Sinéad McCoole
With historical introduction by Margaret Ward
Spies, snipers, couriers, gun-runners, medics
Women in the fight for Ireland's independence risked loss
of life and family for their cause. Here are the biographies
of sixty-five women activists, along with lists of those imprisoned
after the 1916 Rising and the more than seven hundred women arrested
during the Irish Civil War. They came from every class in society-titled
ladies, shop assistants, doctors, housewives, laundry workers,
artists, and teachers. Some were married with children, others
widowed, and some were mere schoolgirls.
Using historical records, interviews with survivors and their
families, and the women's own prison diaries, memorabilia, and
writings, Sinéad McCoole vividly recreates the characters,
personalities, and courage of these extraordinary women, many
of whom served time in Ireland's most notorious prison, Kilmainham
Gaol.
"McCoole
proved 72 extraordinary biographical sketches of these patriotic
women, both famous and unknown, in this absorbing and exciting
look at a little-investigated part of Irish history." —PUBLISHERS
WEEKLY, February 9, 2004, New York, NY
Sinéad McCoole is the author Hazel and Guns
and Chiffon: Women Revolutionaries and Kilmainham Gaol. She
has scripted a series of short films and curated historical and
art exhibitions for Dúchas, (Ireland's heritage service)
and for Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art. She lives in
Dublin and works as a researcher and lecturer at the Kilmainham
Gaol Museum.
Copublished with the O'Brien Press,
Dublin
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October 2003
288 pp. 6 x 9
100 photographs: 70-80 colour; 20-30 black and white
ISBN 0-299-19500-7 Cloth $29.95 t
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