Women and the Decade of Commemorations

Oona Frawley is Associate Professor of English at Maynooth University. She is author of Flight and of Irish Pastoral: Nature and Nostalgia in 20th Century Irish Literature. She is also series editor (with Guy Beiner and Ray Cashman) of Irish Culture, Memory, and Place for Indiana University Press.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Naming Names: Countering Oblivious Remembering in the Decade of Commemorations1. Remembered for Being Forgotten: The Women of 1916, Memory and Commemoration2. Unity of Unionism? Gender, Covenant and Commemoration3. 1916 and After: Remembering 'Ordinary' Women's Experiences of Revolutionary Ireland4. Women of the Rising in Australia: Memory and Commemoration 1916-20165. 'Sick on the Irish Sea, Dancing Across the Atlantic': (Anti)Nostalgia in Women's Diasporic Remembrance of Revolution6. 'No Conscription Now! Or after the harvest': Women and anti-conscription in Ireland and England7. Emerging from the 'historical shadow': Memory and Commemoration of Irish Women's Experiences in the First World War8. Commemorating a missing history: Tracing the visual and material culture of the Irish women's suffrage campaign, 1908 – 19189. Irish Suffrage: Remembrance, Commemoration and Memorialization10. Tea, Sandbags and Cathal Brugha: Kathy Barry's Civil Wars11. Curators of Memory: Women and the Centenary of the Easter Rising12. Exhibiting Éire: Representations of Women in the Easter Rising Centenary Commemorations13. Waking the Feminists: Gender 'Counts'14. 'No Country for Young Women': (Re)producing the Irish State15. Remembering the Home and the Northern Irish Troubles16. Negotiating the past: Women's 'Troubled' and 'Troubling' History in Centennial IrelandBibliographyIndex

"What an impressive collection of scholarly insights and reflections on the many overlooked but hugely influential roles played by Irish women in those convulsive times through the Great War, the Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War. The eyes cast over the history of those times have often been blinkered. Facts, truths, perspectives and analyses which could have offered more complete account did not always make it through the embedded filters  which both subtly and unsubtly skewed the narratives away from what the stories of women could add and infill. This collection of very fine essays helps redress the imbalance. It offers us important pieces of the jigsaw puzzle of our history that we did not know we had lost but that we have been lost without."—Mary McAleese, Former President of Ireland"Crucially, 'to commemorate' is 'to call to remembrance' and this volume of essays is a clarion call: making newly visible Irish women's historical agency and international impact, and countering a century of oblivion and neglect."—Margaret Kelleher, Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, University College Dublin