A glimpse at the long and winding history of Irishwomen United reminds us how far we've come.&nbsp; The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United (IWU) activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train of 1971. This phenomenal collection of nineteen essays offers firsthand, historical accounts of on-the-ground activities during this period, shining a light of neglected truth on the history of how Ireland was changed. In this book, writer and IWU member Evelyn Conlon, with the academic and editorial support of Rebecca Pelan, ensures the impact of the organization will no longer be forgotten. The collective memories of these women describe everything from pickets to sit-ins, self-questioning to dancing, the development of feminist ideas, and publishing despite the restrictive laws and attitudes surrounding them. Through relentless, difficult discussions, publications, marches, and allyship with the global Feminist and Civil Rights Movement, the ideas of IWU were transformed into action for the sake of reproductive rights, sexuality, representation, and rape crisis work. A foreword from former Irish President Mary McAleese contextualizes the collective labor of IWU within a not-so-distant past in Ireland. This book also features an archive of original art, flyers, photographs, and memorabilia of the movement, many appearing for the first time in print. Irishwomen United and their allies set the precedent for change for the next generation. The stories of these women campaigners are not only representative of past movements but also a call to action for future social justice activists in the fight for liberation and equality for all. &nbsp;

After the Train: Irishwomen United and a Network of Change

History

Europe

University College Dublin Press

This book returns to print&nbsp;a long-forgotten series of articles in defense of the Orange Order, a Protestant counterrevolutionary group in Ireland. In the autumn of 1835, as the Orange Order faced a parliamentary inquiry and the imminent prospect of being banned, an Old Orangeman, signing himself "Montanus," wrote a series of articles defending the Orange brethren and telling their story. Almost forgotten since their first publication, these articles together form a unique and intelligent view from inside the Order in its first cycle. "Montanus" discusses the Orangemen's self-organization by the Protestant peasantry of County Armagh in 1795, their struggle against the United Irishmen, dissensions over the Act of Union, feuding with the Catholic nationalist Ribbon Society, extraordinary influence on the government of Ireland, and their last-ditch opposition to Daniel O'Connell's campaign for Catholic Emancipation. Old Orangeman was a product of eighteenth-century Enlightened thought and became an eloquent warning voice against the perils of toleration and liberalism. He had been associated with the Order from its birth. He knew both its leading men and their deadly enemies, including Theobald Wolfe Tone. Most striking, perhaps, is Old Orangeman's carefully argued justification of the Order as a timely and irreplaceable bulwark against the rising tide of democracy and radicalism. These Letters from an Old Orangeman are not just a personal memoir or a one-sided history, but a carefully argued political treatise on the necessity of mobilizing and organizing the "reactionary democracy" in an age of popular politics. Their republication now is an important contribution not only to the history of sectarian discord in Ulster and Ireland. It supplies an important source for the study of popular conservatism and the psychology of counter-revolution in the United Kingdom and beyond. "Montanus" feared that he, who had "rocked the cradle" of the Institution, might now be fated to "follow its hearse." His letters instead provide an unrivalled insight into one of Ireland's most tenacious and consequential survivals. &nbsp;

Letters from an Old Orangeman (Classics of Irish History)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

A new perspective on the key battles, underlying factors, and lasting impact of the 1798 Rebellion, written by a leading Irish historian.\nThe 1798 Rebellion was one of the bloodiest events in Irish history. Thousands of people were slaughtered in a single summer in a massive popular uprising against British rule. Thousands more were seriously injured and traumatised by the horrific violence they witnessed. Significant disturbances involved more than half of Ireland’s counties, and the number of insurgents—upwards of 100,000—dwarfed those who fought in later national uprisings.\nToday, we still live with the ideological and practical consequences of the rebellion. This was the bloody climax of a decade of radicalism and reaction that saw the emergence of new forms of militant republicanism and popular loyalism that strongly influenced the course of Irish history. It was inspired by a desire to unite Ireland’s political and religious factions, but in the end, it drove them further apart. The rebellion sought to secure Ireland’s independence, but instead led directly to an Act of Union with Great Britain that determined the course of Anglo-Irish relations for two centuries.\nFrench and American revolutionary ideas were deeply embedded in this movement, and the impact of 1798 reached far beyond Irish waters. The flight, exile, and banishment of thousands of Irish people abroad ensured that its ripple effects were felt on the European continent and throughout the English-speaking world, in Britain, North America, and Australia.\nBloody Summer is a fresh and comprehensive exploration of the rebellion that seeks to answer the question of not just what happened in 1798, but why it happened, and demonstrates a new, compelling account of this seismic event in Irish history.

Bloody Summer: A New History of the 1798 Rebellion

Quinn, James

From Bullets to Ballots: Politics and Electioneering in Post-Civil WarCounty Kerry, 1923–33

O’Shea, Owen

New and fresh perspectives on an influential Irish nationalist politician.\nThis collection explores the political life of John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party tradition, emphasizing his early career and offering a new perspective on the legacy of the Redmond family. Using a longue durée approach, the volume spans the nineteenth-century Land War through the 1952 death of Bridget Redmond, the last member of the family elected to parliament.\nThe book brings together an outstanding lineup of scholars from different disciplines who offer a range of new viewpoints on Redmond, the IPP, and its origins and legacies. Drawing on printed and archival sources, essays consider the influence of leaders Isaac Butt and Charles Stewart Parnell on Redmond, examine aspects of Redmond’s political philosophy, reflect on the party’s actions during World War I, and offer a stimulating reassessment of Redmond’s attitude to women’s suffrage. Taken together, they explore the Home Rule movement in a broader context, examining the continuities and discontinuities between the IPP and the parties that succeeded it. Further, the volume offers a new analysis of gender and politics in independent Ireland through an exploration of the suffrage movement and the career of Bridget Redmond.\nEncompassing the contemporary context of the post-Brexit landscape, this book will appeal to scholars, students, and readers with an interest in Anglo-Irish relations.

John Redmond and Irish Parliamentary Traditions

The first historical overview of the study of languages in Ireland from an expert in the area. How history shifts languages and languages in turn shape history is a deep-rooted, dynamic process manifest in Victorian Ireland. In Foreign Tongues, Phyllis Gaffney sheds new light on this period of Irish history, exploring how continental influences that predated the Penal Laws were reinvigorated in the wake of the French Revolution. An influx of foreign teachers and religious orders created institutions for an emerging élite, and University education expanded. At the same time, civil service reforms opened careers across the British Empire to graduates from all religions. The result is that Ireland's Victorian colleges embraced language study--ancient and modern, Irish and European--more eagerly than their British counterparts. An adaptive, fast-changing academic landscape laid the groundwork for today's Ireland--culturally confident, open to Europe and the world--while the dramatic rise of the Gaelic League forged a bond between language, education, and politics with pervasive effects on Irish identities in the twentieth century. None of that was plain sailing. Gaffney's profiles of individual professors reveal pioneering scholarship, precarious careers, sudden scandals, and denunciations and dismissals linked to local conflicts and foreign wars. On the positive side, the advance of women's education cleared the path for a cohort of notable female professors across modern languages. This wide-ranging, detailed study draws on multiple sources to cast a fresh light on aspects of Irish history, viewed through the complex lens of language education. &nbsp;

Foreign Tongues: Victorian Language Learning and the Shaping of Modern Ireland

Reference

Gaffney, Phyllis

Language Study & Reference

Wild-Looking But Fine: Abbey Theatre Actresses of the 1930s

Literature & Fiction

O'Dowd, Ciara

Dramas & Plays

Fresh analyses on decades of rural and agricultural centrality in Ireland, and the power players seeking influence over rural outcomes. In the early decades of twentieth-century Ireland, a new kind of farmer, one who was among the landowners who emerged as the major winners in the recent agricultural revolution, exerted considerable influence over the new Free State and Irish Catholicism. After 1932, the strides of industrialization were never strong enough to threaten agriculture's economic primacy or the countryside's central position. It was not until the severe crisis conditions in the 1950s that a transformation began, setting southern Ireland on a gradual path toward urban industrialism. Exploring rural Ireland before and after this momentous transition, the contributors to Inside Rural Ireland examine the power of varying groups--ruling politicians and state bodies, farmers, clerical and non-clerical civic activists, intellectuals (social commentators, as well as fiction writers), returned emigrants, and farm women--to promote or impede rural changes. The book reveals that the state's power to promote rural change has contracted and expanded throughout the years since Ireland joined the European Union in 1973. Furthermore, it explores divided views on the impact of urban industrialism on rural interests. Throughout much of the period, since the 1950s, the power of organized farmers to represent Irish farming interests remained high as the number of those working the land continued to dwindle. In recent decades, the persisting limited power of clerical activists and intellectuals to restructure rural civil society along Catholic or Christian lines has undergone further decline. Most recently, the prospects for farm women to increase their relative power have arguably improved the most, in certain respects, even if land ownership still remains stubbornly in male hands.

Inside Rural Ireland: Power and Change since Independence

Compelling perspectives from leading historians on Joe Lee's historical classic and its relevance to our current understanding of the history of modern Ireland.\nIn 1989, renowned historian J.J. Lee published his magnum opus, Ireland 1912–1985: Politics and Society. Not only had Lee written a classic, but he transcended the reach of the academy when the book became a popular bestseller—going over a dozen reprints, selling thousands of copies, and winning an array of awards.\nOver three decades later, this collection of essays honors Lee’s contribution to historical scholarship by gauging the influence of Ireland 1912–1985 as a historical analysis and commentary through the contributions of a dozen leading historians of modern Ireland. Simultaneously, this collection measures the applicability of Ireland's 1912–1985 historiographical and methodological approach to more recent history. Nearly all of the contributors to A Tract for Our Times were trained as historians with Ireland 1912–1985 as a touchstone text. Thus, each author revisits this book with their own field of expertise in mind.\nLee's stature as a sought-after public intellectual and a widely published scholar, combined with the profile of contributors, makes A Tract for Our Times an essential reading for anyone interested in the trajectory of Ireland since the decade before independence, and the craft of history writing.\nContributors include Andy Bielenberg, Marion R. Casey, Anne Dolan, Diarmaid Ferriter, Cormac Ó Gráda, Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, Richard McMahon, Daniel Mulhall, Bernadette Whelan, Niall Whelehan and Nicholas M. Wolf.

A Tract for Our Times: A Retrospective on Joe Lee's Ireland 1912–1985

The story of the grassroots #WakingTheFeminists movement in Irish theater, a campaign that changed how we saw the world and reshaped the future both on and off the stage.\nWhen the Abbey Theatre’s 2016 centenary program excluded women artists, it sparked a nationwide movement. What began as an outrage on social media evolved into a meticulously organized yearlong campaign that transformed the Irish theater landscape—and resonated beyond.\nWTF Happened reveals the behind-the-scenes, untold story of the groundbreaking #WakingTheFeminists grassroots movement for gender equality in Irish theater, 2015–16. Leading activists, academics, historians, and arts professionals, with the support of the Irish Theatre Institute, compile their knowledge into a multidisciplinary archive relevant to gender studies, women’s history, arts and theater, cultural policy and governance, social justice, and contemporary history. Included within these pages are photographs, visual examples of social media interactions, and memorabilia of the movement as kept by its organizers and both the National Library of Ireland and the National Museum of Ireland.\nAs well as being an important and exhaustive historical record of a short-lived but highly impactful collective campaign, this book serves as an inspiring guide for future activists, offering crucial lessons on mobilizing grassroots efforts to achieve systemic change. It underscores the ongoing work needed to achieve full gender equality, both in the arts and in society at large, and puts #WakingTheFeminists in context with the Irish activist movements that came before and after.\nGreat theater changes the atmosphere in the room and reshapes how we think about our lives. Great campaigning changes how we see the world and reshapes our future.

WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement that Changed Irish Theatre

Durcan, Sarah

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