The making of inequality

Winning the Vote for Women

The Irish Citizen newspaper and the suffrage movement in Ireland

Louise Ryan

The campaign for women’s votes in Ireland coincided with the nationalist movement, the First World War, the rise of the trade union movement, the cultural reviv…

Richmond Barracks 1916

“We were there” – 77 women of the Easter Rising

Mary McAuliffe & Liz Gillis

‘Not the least of the betrayals following the 1916 Rising was the way in which the women who took part in it were subsequently written out of the chronicles. Th…

Alice Milligan and the Irish cultural revival

Catherine Morris

'A profound and moving analysis of one of the greatest inventors of modern Ireland, this account of Alice Milligan itself displays those qualities of intellectu…

Imagining alternative Irelands in 1912

Cultural discourse in the periodical press

Brian Ward

In pre-independence Ireland, there was not just one potential home rule nation, but rather a multitude of idealized Irelands, and journalists sought to promote …