Women in Ireland (Used Copy)

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This new book by the historian Myrtle Hill describes how and why these extraordinary changes came about. Women’s contribution to the great events of the century – the struggle for Home Rule, the Easter Rising, the War of Independence, the Civil War, two cataclysmic world wars and the bitter conflict in the North – is revealingly explored. So too are the constraints imposed on women’s lives by the new constitutional arrangements that emerged in the 1920s and the unstoppable second wave of feminism that by the 1970s had put ‘women’s issues’ – equal pay, parliamentary representation, birth control, abortion, divorce and decent housing – back on the agenda.

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