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Renegades : Irish republican women 1900-1922

Renegades examines the part played by women in the major political and social revolutions that took place from 1900-1922. It explores the growing separation of republican women into two distinct groups, those active on the military side in Cumann na mBan and those involved on the political side, particularly with Sinn Fein. It also looks at the often ignored ̀war on women', which manifested itself in the form of physical and sexual assaults by both sides during the War of Independence, and the fury of female republicans as the political establishment accepted the Anglo-Irish Treaty
Print Book, English, ©2010
Mercier, Cork, ©2010