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The Irish Catholic Women's Suffrage Association (ICWSA) was an organisation for women's suffrage which was set up in Dublin in November 1915. The association was established rather late in the struggle for women's suffrage (the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society was formed in the UK in 1911), despite the fact that most of Ireland's population was Catholic.
The IWLM was democratically organised, with members voting on various projects and protests as a group each month. [9] Local groups of IWLM sent two representatives each to the meetings. [9] Overall, the meetings were often very disorganised and noisy, but also, the meetings allowed women to express ideas they'd not been able to give voice to ...
The following is a list of notable month-long observances, recurrent months that are used by various governments, groups and organizations to raise awareness of an issue, commemorate a group or event, or celebrate something.
Harrington's work was reviewed by Lisa M. Bitel of the University of Southern California in The Catholic Historical Review.Opening with a reference to the woman-hating attitude of Father Jack Hackett in the Irish television series Father Ted, Bitel described Women in a Celtic Church as a "vehemently argued" yet "somewhat naïvely nativist" book.
Every March, we celebrate women's contributions to history and present-day society with Women’s History Month. “Feminists in the 1970s critiqued the exclusion and lack of recognition of women ...
The Inghinidhe originated from a meeting of 15 women in the Celtic Literary Society Rooms in Dublin on Easter Sunday 1900 (April 15th). [3] While the meeting's original purpose was to provide a gift for Arthur Griffith for defending Maud Gonne from an accusation that she was a British spy, [3] it turned to planning a "Patriotic Children's Treat" in response to the Children's Treat in the ...
The Irish Women's Liberation Movement was an alliance of a group of Irish women who were concerned about the sexism within Ireland, both socially and legally. They first began after a meeting in Dublin's Bewley's Cafe on Grafton Street in 1970. [11] They later had their meetings in Margaret Gaj's restaurant on Baggot Street every Monday.
Irish Women's Temperance Union was an Irish non-sectarian and non-political organization, [1] founded in Belfast in 1894, for the purpose of promoting temperance among the women of Ireland. [2] Margaret Byers served as its first president.