Tutorial # 2
Women in Ireland
Discuss the nature of political activism amongst the Irish women in colonial period.
(All readings below are compulsory)
Atwal, J., Breathnach, C., & Buckley, S.-A. (Eds.). (2022). Gender and History: Ireland, 1852–
1922 (1st ed.). Routledge India.
The book is open access. All chapters can be downloaded
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Section 4: Politics and Revolution
Chapter 17. Margaret ward, ‘A Voice in the Affairs of the Nation’: Irish Women and
Nationalism 1872–1922.
Chapter 19. Jyoti Atwal, Margaret Elizabeth Cousins and Transnationalism: An Irish
Suffragist as an Anti-Colonial Feminist in Colonial India.
Chapter 20. Eunan O’ Halpin, Female Revolutionaries and Political Violence in India and
Ireland, 1919–39.