Irish Women's History Reader

Alan Hayes is Researcher at the National University of Ireland, Galway and Publisher of Arlen House and Diane Urquhart is Lecturer in Modern Irish History at the Institute of Irish Studies of the University of Liverpool.

• Introduction PART ONE Historiography 1 FROM MORGAN TO MACCURTAIN: WOMEN HISTORIANS IN IRELAND FROM THE 1790s TO THE 1990s HISTORY WOMEN AND HISTORY MEN: THE POLITICS OF WOMEN'S HISTORY 3 WOMEN 'S HISTORY, FEMINIST HISTORY ORGENDER HISTORY? PART TWO Politics 4 WOMEN AND POLITICS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND 5 VOTES FOR WOMEN 6 WOMEN AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN IRELAND (1879-1914) 7 'THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES IS MORE DEADLIER THAN THE MALE'?: THE ULSTER WOMEN'S UNIONIST COUNCIL, 1911-40 8 MARGINALIT Y AND MILITANCY: CUMANNNAMBAN, 1914-36 9 ASPECTS OF WOMEN 'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE OIREACHTAS DEBATE IN THE IRISH FREE STATE, 1922-37 10 THE CONSTITUTION AND THE ROLE OF WOMEN PART THREE Health and Sexuality 11 WOMEN AND SEXUALITY IN NINETEENTH -CENTURY IRELAND 12 ' A BANDONED WOMEN AND BAD CHARACTERS ' : PROSTITUTION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND 13 THE G R EAT FAMINE 14 HEARTHS, BODIES AND MINDS : GENDER IDEOLOGY AND WOMEN'S COMMITTAL TO ENNISCORTHY LUNATIC ASYLUM, 1916-25 15 MARIE STOPES IN IRE LAND: THE MOTHER'S CLINIC IN BELFAST, 1936-47 PART FOUR Religion 16 ' BORN TO SERVE ': Women EVANGELICAL RELIGION 17 WALLS WITHIN WALLS : NUNS IN NINETEENTH -CENTURY IRELAND 18 WOMEN AND THE CHURCH SINCE THE FAMINE 19 ' EQUAL SINNERS': IRISHWOMEN UTILISING THE SALVATION ARMY RESCUE NETWORK FOR BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 20 GODLY BURDEN: CATHOLIC SISTER HOODS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRELAND 21 NEITHER FEMINIST NOR FLAPPER: THE ECCLESIASTICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE IDEAL IRISH WOMAN PART FIVE Emigration 22 WOMEN AND THE IRISH DIASPORA: THE GREAT UNKNOWN 23 BAREFOOT AND PREGNANT? I RISH FAMINE ORPHANS IN AUSTRALIA 24 THE SEARCH FOR BREAD: PATTERNS OF FEMALE MIGRATION 25 IRISH WOMEN'S EMIGRATION TO ENGLAND, 1922-60: THE LENGTHENING OF FAMILY TIES PART SIX Work 26 IN THE IRISH WORKFORCE FROM PRE-INDUSTRIAL TO MODERN TIMES 27 CONCLUSION in WOMEN AND PHILANTHROPY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND 28 'THE BEST OF ALL HOME RULERS': THE ECONOMIC POWER OF WOMEN IN IRELAND, 1880-1914 29 WOMEN IN RURAL IRELAND IN THE NIN ET EE NTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES: HOW THE DAUGHTERS, WIVES AND SISTERS OF SMALL FARMERS AND LANDLESS LABOURERS FARED 30 LIFE FOR DOMESTIC SERVANTS IN DUBLIN, 1880-1920 31 WOMEN AND IRISH TRADE UNIONS. CONCLUSION.