The Ideal Diplomat?

Ireland, the United Nations and the Congo

A military and diplomatic history, 1960–1

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In 1961 Irish United Nations peacekeepers went into combat in the Congolese province of Katanga. It was the Irish Defence Forces’ first experience of active service since 1923....
Author/Editor: Michael Kennedy & Art Magennis

Winning the Vote for Women

The Irish Citizen newspaper and the suffrage movement in Ireland

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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 revival and,...
Author/Editor: Louise Ryan

The making of inequality

Women, power and gender ideology in the Irish Free State, 1922–37

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How did Ireland travel from the glorious Proclamation of 1916, with its promise of equality and universal citizenship, to the conservative constitution of 1937, which allowed for only...
Author/Editor: Maryann Gialanella Valiulis

Women and the country house in Ireland and Britain

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This volume of essays examines the lives of women in country houses in Ireland and Britain from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century. The authors present...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley, Maeve O'Riordan & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Lady Butler

War artist and traveller, 1846–1933

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This is the first biography of Victorian Britain’s greatest war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, who found fame and public acclaim after exhibiting her Crimean War painting The Roll Call in...
Author/Editor: Catherine Wynne

Wilhelmina Geddes

Life and work

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Shortlisted for *The Apollo Awards 2016 **Book of the Year* and *The William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2016*. Also, *Times Literary Supplement* choice for...
Author/Editor: Nicola Gordon Bowe