International Perspectives on Gender

Week 17

Women, the Nationalist Struggle and the Irish Free State

19th CenturyIreland – oneBritish colony

Celebrates cheap English bread and supposed recovery of the Irish potato crop.

The loaf is saying, ‘Well! old Fellow I'm delighted to see you looking so well– Why they said you had the Aphis Vastator’

The potato responds, ‘all humbug Sir never was better in my life thank Heaven’.Punch cartoon, 1847

‘Famine Denial’

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Punch Cartoon 1881(John Tenniel)

Clash of ‘good’ (Britannia)And ‘evil’ (Irish stone-throwing anarchist)

Image from The Magdalene Sisters

Maud Gonne, founder of Daughters of Ireland, 1900

Women of IrelandMonthly Magazine of DaughtersOf Ireland

After the Easter Rising

Flag raised at GPO atstart of uprising

‘Here, after Easter week1916, the followingleaders were executed:…’

Eamon De Valera De Valera’s first Cabinet

Mrs Erskine ChildersAnd Mary Spring Ricebringing German ArmsTo Howth, near Dublin,1916

To school bare-foot in the 1950s

Cooking over an open fire

Cutting Turf for fuel