The deputation was sponsored by Irish-English suffragist Margaret Cousins
. The Indian women's movement gained momentum after Annie Besant
was interned by the Governor of Madras in June 1917. After her release in September, women...
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11 November 1908: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Margaret Cousins...
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
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MacCurtain, Margaret. “Women, the Vote and Revolution”. Women in Irish Society: The Historical Dimension, edited by Margaret MacCurtain and Donncha Ó Corráin, Greenwood, 1979, pp. 46-57.
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Ward, Margaret. “’Suffrage First--Above All Else!’ An Account of the Irish Suffrage Movement”. Feminist Review, Vol.
10
, 1982, pp. 21-36.
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February 1913: Four women prisoners—Margaret Cousins, Margaret...
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February 1913
Four women prisoners—Margaret Cousins
, Margaret Connery
, Barbara Hoskins
, and Mabel Purves
—went on a hunger strike for six days at Tullamore Prison to demand political prisoner status.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
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July 1920: The Irish Citizen ended publication after...
Building item
July 1920
The Irish Citizen ended publication after a British soldier wrecked the press.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.