Ummanageable Revolutionaries
Subtitle: Women and Irish Nationalism
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: February 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780745310855
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; British & Irish history: from c 1900 -; Political structure & processes; Revolutions & coups; Women's studies; Ireland; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Europe - Ireland; Political History; Women's Studies - General; Politics / Current Events
Description: Describing women's fight for Ireland's independence from 1881 to the present day, Unmanageable Revolutionaries focuses on three Irish nationalist women's organisations - the Ladies Land League, Inghinidhe na hEireann and the Cumann na mBan. Although all three are very different, a common theme emerges - that women have never been seen as an independent force in Irish political history. Mobilised in times of crisis, they have been consistently excluded from positions of influence.

This, despite minor concessions, remains true today. Now reissued with a new introduction, Unmanageable Revolutionaries remains a classic study of the role of the women's movement in modern Irish history.