Winning the Vote for Women: The Irish Citizen Newspaper and the Suffrage Movement in Ireland

by 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 revival and, of course, the 1916 Rising. It culminated in 1918, with Ireland electing the first woman to parliament in London. However, the Irish suffrage movement was not a single-issue group. It did not merely campaign for votes, but also presented a feminist critique of the plight of Irish women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846827019
• ISBN13: 9781846827013
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"