Cumann na mBan

Connections

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Occupation	Constance Countess Markievicz	While CCM was imprisoned the Dail was declared illegal and Sinn Féin , Cumann na mBan , and other groups were proscribed. Following her release, she remained head of the Labour ministry and joined her...
politics	Constance Countess Markievicz	The final phase of CCM 's political career was shaped primarily by her resistance to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921, which resulted in the establishment of the Irish Free State. She was one...
politics	Teresa Deevy	From the time of her return from England to Ireland, TD took an energetic part in Irish nationalist politics, to the disapproval of her family. She visited Republican prisoners in jail in Waterford, became...
politics	Constance Countess Markievicz	Still in jail for her role in this year's Easter Rising in Dublin, Constance, Countess Markievicz, was elected to the presidency of Cumann na mBan , the women's branch of the Irish Volunteers . Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988. 121, 175
politics	Constance Countess Markievicz	Constance, Countess Markievicz, resigned as President of Cumann na mBan (the women's council of the Irish Volunteers ) in order to join Fianna Fail (Soldiers of Destiny ), a party formed by Eamon De Valera

The Irish Women's Franchise League , in the Irish Citizen, criticized the recently-formed Cumann na mBan for placing nationalism before women's suffrage.

McKillen, Beth. “Irish Feminism and Nationalist Separatism, 1914-23”. Éire-Ireland, Vol.

, No. 3, 4, 1982, pp. 52 - 67, 72.

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Ward, Margaret. “’Suffrage First--Above All Else!’ An Account of the Irish Suffrage Movement”. Feminist Review, Vol.

, 1982, pp. 21-36.

Cumann na mBan sent Hanna Sheehy Skeffington to the USA to present President Wilson with a Cuman na mBan memorial.

McKillen, Beth. “Irish Feminism and Nationalist Separatism, 1914-23”. Éire-Ireland, Vol.

, No. 3, 4, 1982, pp. 52 - 67, 72.

Luddy, Maria, editor. Women in Ireland, 1800-1918: A Documentary History. Cork University Press, 1995.

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Cumann na mBan sent Hanna Sheehy Skeffington to the USA to present President Wilson with a Cuman na mBan memorial.

McKillen, Beth. “Irish Feminism and Nationalist Separatism, 1914-23”. Éire-Ireland, Vol.

, No. 3, 4, 1982, pp. 52 - 67, 72.

Luddy, Maria, editor. Women in Ireland, 1800-1918: A Documentary History. Cork University Press, 1995.

243

Cumann na mBan publicly stated its opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 6 December 1921, becoming the first nationalist organisation to do so.

Ward, Margaret. Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism. Pluto, 1983.

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Moody, Theodore William et al., editors. A New History of Ireland. Clarendon, 1976–2024, 10 vols.

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