Irish Women in the First World War Era
This book is the first collection of essays to focus exclusively on Irish womens experiences in the First World War period, 191418, across the island of Ireland, contextualising the wartime realities of womens lives in a changing political landscape.
The essays consider experiences ranging from the everyday realities of poverty and deprivation to the contributions made to the war effort by women through philanthropy and by working directly with refugees. Gendered norms and assumptions about womens behaviour are critically analysed, from the rhetoric surrounding separation women and their use of alcohol, to the navigation of public spaces and the attempts to deter women from perceived immoral behaviour. Political life is also examined by leading scholars in the field, including accounts from women on both sides of the Irish question and the impact the war had on their activism and ambitions. Finally, new light is shed on the experiences of women working in munitions factories around Ireland, and the complexity of this work in the Irish context is explored. Throughout, it is asserted that while there were many commonalities in womens experiences throughout the British and Irish Isles at this time, the particular political context of Ireland added a different, and in many respects an unexamined, dimension.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Womens History Review.
Jennifer Redmond is a Lecturer in Twentieth Century Irish History at Maynooth University, Ireland, lecturing in Irish social, political, gender and demographic history. She has published in these areas, including her monograph, Moving Histories: Irish Womens Migration to Britain from Independence to Republic (2018).
Elaine Farrell is a Senior Lecturer in Irish Social History at Queens University Belfast, UK. Her research and publications have focused on gender and crime in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is currently working on the AHRC-funded Bad Bridget project, a study of criminal and deviant Irish women in North America, 18381918.
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Contents
Jennifer Redmond and Elaine Farrell
Sarah-Anne Buckley
Maeve ORiordan
Holly Dunbar
Sandra McAvoy
Leanne McCormick
Senia Paeta
Deborah Thom
Diane Urquhart
Guide
The chapters in this book were originally published in Womens History Review, volume 27, issue 3 (May 2018). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
- War Within and Without: Irish women in the First World War era
- Jennifer Redmond and Elaine Farrell
- Womens History Review, volume 27, issue 3 (May 2018) pp. 329342
Chapter 2
- Growing Up Poor: child welfare, motherhood and the State during the First World War
- Sarah-Anne Buckley
- Womens History Review, volume 27, issue 3 (May 2018) pp. 343359
Chapter 3
- Titled Women and Voluntary War Work in Ireland during the First World War: a case study of Ethel, Lady Inchiquin
- Maeve ORiordan
- Womens History Review, volume 27, issue 3 (May 2018) pp. 360378
Chapter 4
- Women and Alcohol During the First World War in Ireland
- Holly Dunbar
- Womens History Review, volume 27, issue 3 (May 2018) pp. 379396
Chapter 5
- Relief Work and Refugees: Susanne Rouviere Day (18761964) on war as womens business
- Sandra McAvoy
- Womens History Review, volume 27, issue 3 (May 2018) pp. 397413
Chapter 6
- The Dangers and Temptations of the Street: managing female behaviour in Belfast during the First World War
- Leanne McCormick
- Womens History Review, volume 27, issue 3 (May 2018) pp. 414431
Chapter 7
- New Issues and Old: women and politics in Ireland, 19141918
- Senia Paeta
- Womens History Review, volume 27, issue 3 (May 2018) pp. 432449
Chapter 8
- Women, War Work and the State in Ireland, 19141918
- Deborah Thom
- Womens History Review, volume 27, issue 3 (May 2018) pp. 450467
- [The version in this book has been slightly revised.]
Chapter 9
- Unionism, Orangeism and War
- Diane Urquhart
- Womens History Review, volume 27, issue 3 (May 2018) pp. 468484
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Sarah-Anne Buckley is a Lecturer in History at the National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland. Her research centres on the history of childhood and youth in Ireland.
Holly Dunbar is a PhD Student at the University of Southampton, UK, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her doctoral thesis considers masculinity and femininity in the Irish nationalist press during the revolutionary period, c.191223.
Elaine Farrell is a Senior Lecturer in Irish Social History at Queens University Belfast, UK. Her research and publications have focused on gender and crime in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Sandra McAvoy recently retired from coordinating Womens Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. Her research interests include the history of sexuality and women in politics.
Leanne McCormick is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish Social History and the Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland at Ulster University, UK. Her research interests include womens history, history of sexuality and history of medicine in Ireland/Northern Ireland.