International Perspectives on Gender Week 17 Women, the Nationalist Struggle and the Irish Free State
19 th Century Ireland – one British 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’
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 Ireland Monthly Magazine of Daughters Of Ireland
After the Easter Rising
Flag raised at GPO at start of uprising
‘Here, after Easter week 1916, the following leaders were executed:…’
Eamon De Valera De Valera’s first Cabinet
Mrs Erskine Childers And Mary Spring Rice bringing German Arms To Howth, near Dublin, 1916
To school bare-foot in the 1950s Cooking over an open fire Cutting Turf for fuel