'It is to be assumed that members of C. na m Ban cannot be kept out of such a body!': women, Irish republicanism, and prisoner support work 1939–45.
The historical consensus on Cumann na mBan, Ireland's republican women's organisation, suggests that by the period of the Second World War (or Emergency as it was known in independent Ireland) it was largely inactive. This article explores the organisation's activity in this period, framing it as pa...
| Publicado en: | Women's History Review Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 508 - 529 |
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