Sonja Tiernan

Eva Gore-Booth

An image of such politics

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Produktbeschreibung

Academics, postgraduate and undergraduate students in Irish and British social and cultural history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9780719082313
• ISBN-10: 0719082315
• Artikelnr.: 35420491

Autorenporträt

Sonja Tiernan is the Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies and co-director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago

Inhaltsangabe

Introducing the Gore-Booth family 1 Life in the big house: childhood and
Lissadell 2 A pair of oddities: meeting Esther Roper 3 The birth of a
rebel: social reform in Manchester 4 Sadder and wiser women: Lancashire
trade unions 5 Women who kick, shriek, bite and spit: suffragists and
suffragettes 6 Defending barmaids: legislative proposals and Winston
Churchill 7 World War One: from trade unionism to peace movements 8
Conscientious objectors and revolution: world war and an Irish rebellion 9
Roger Casement and the aftermath of the Easter Rising 10 Prison reform and
military conscription in Ireland 11 Radical sexual politics and post-war
religion 12 Final years Afterword Bibliography of Archival Sources Major
publications by Eva Gore-Booth Notes Index