De Valera's Irelands by Dermot Keogh & Keogh Doherty & Dermot Keogh

Author:Dermot Keogh & Keogh Doherty & Dermot Keogh [Doherty, Gabriel & Keogh, Dermot]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Europe, Ireland, Political Science, History, Political, Biography & Autobiography, Revolutionaries, Statesmen
ISBN: 9781856354141
Publisher: Mercier Press
Published: 2011-07-12T10:03:11+00:00

1 Journalistic examples are numerous, in the journalism of, e.g., Emily O’Reilly, Fintan O’Toole, Kathryn Holmquist, Nuala O’Faolain (to name but four) in the Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, Irish Press, Sunday Press, 1990–1997. Lichfield, John, ‘Ireland’s comely maidens are doing it for themselves’ in Independent on Sunday 15 September 1996, is one example of the genre. There are several other examples of this doom-laden scen­ario in the fields of sociology and political science, and women’s studies; see, for example, Rose, Catherine, The Female Experience: the Story of the Woman Movement in Ireland, Arlen House, Galway, 1975; Mahon, Evelyn, ‘Women’s Rights and Catholi­cism in Ireland’ New Left Review, no. 166 (November–December 1978), pp. 53–78, and ‘From Democracy to Femocracy: the Women’s Movement in the Republic of Ireland’ in Clancy, P., et al (eds), Irish Society: Sociological Perspectives, IPA, Dublin 1995, pp. 675–708; Beale, Jenny, Women in Ireland: Voices of Change, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1986; Gardiner, Frances, ‘The Unfinished Revolution’, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 1992, pp. 15–39. Rose’s and Beale’s books are very thoroughly researched and each was ground-breaking when it first appeared. It is impossible to disagree with Beale’s summary of the first fifty years after independence as ‘fifty years of in­equality’, however much one might disagree with some of her other conclusions. Pro­fessor Joseph Lee in his Ireland 1912–85: Politics and Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989, p. 335 uses the William Trevor short story ‘The Ballroom of Romance’, published in 1972 and actually set in 1971, to underline women’s parti­cularly hard lives in rural Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s.

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