Century: Women and the vote

Passion on both sides

“Women, in whatever country ye breathe – wherever ye breathe, degraded, awake! Awake to the contemplation of the happiness that…

A history of her story

The big picture: The Irish women’s movement was created by unionists and nationalists, Home Rulers and republicans, liberals and socialists, Protestants, Catholics and women of no religion. They deserve a place in the history books.

Suffrage and socialism: links with Labour

Suffrage and socialism : Suffrage and trade union aims didn’t always tally – some trade unionists supported higher wages for men, for example – but they found common cause fighting against injustice and for equality

Divisions run deep

Northern Ireland : Ethnicity and class were just some of the pressures facing Ulster’s suffrage movement.

Opponents of the cause

Anti-suffrage movement: Educated women were among those arguing that female suffrage would damage society.

The long road to equality

Their struggle is our struggle: Women’s empowerment will progress only through their involvement in political processes and in shaping constitutions that guarantee the equal rights of all citizens.

Tooth and Claw

Prison hunger strikes: Some Irish suffragists moved to militancy a little after their English counterparts, but when they d, the stones flew.

When women won the vote

From New Zealand to Saudi Arabia: The representation of People Act, 1918, that granted votes to certain Irish and English women…

Standing up for women in politics

Anna Haslam, with help from the writings of her husband, Thomas, was a pioneer in persuading women of all political hues to stand for election .

Separate but equal

UK links and tensions: Although influenced by what was going in Britain, suffragists in Ireland went their own way

A new battlefield

Women and war: The issue of pacifism split the Irish feminist movement during a crucial period in its history

A role in Home Rule

The fight for a free state: In 1914, as the Home Rule crisis deepened, northern militancy escalated in protest against Edward Carson’s statement that women would not be given the vote in a secessionist Ulster.

Read all about it: writing wrongs

Read all about it:  Research on Irish feminism often concentrates on the pursuit of votes, but there were other issues and many debates within the movement which can be better understood by reading its ‘Irish Citizen’ newspaper.

Women’s work

Women often wielded authority at home 100 years ago, but as public figures in professions such as teaching and nursing they were becoming much more common.

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