By Margaret Ward
Unmanageable Revolutionaries describes how Irish ladies (despite their widespread omission from the heritage books) have continually performed a key function within the fight for independence. the writer specializes in 3 pivotal Irish nationalist women's companies the women Land League, Inghinidhe na hEireann and Cumann na mBan - to teach that ladies have regularly been a driver in Irish political background.
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The members would not co-opt any women. ' His motion was ruled out of order. 2 One of the arguments Page xiv was that there was no necessity for such a measure now that the constitution was pledged to uphold equality between the sexes. Any suggestion that positive action to rectify current inequalities was urgently required was rejected, while the lack of any women's caucus ensured that counter-arguments were very few in number. The Convention was also a significant indicator as to the likely future status of women in an independent Ireland.
Although tenants were refusing to pay more than a 'fair rent', an average reduction of 20 per cent benefited only the larger farmers. 11 The uneconomical size of the holdings of the poorer peasants meant that they were simply unable to pay any rent. Although evictions were not prevented, linked to the obstructionist tactic was what became known as the boycott', which isolated land-grabbers and made life so unpleasant for them that it was hoped no one would want to buy up a farm after the previous tenant had been evicted, and the landlord would eventually be forced to take back the original occupant.
23 Ellen O'Leary's brother John had served a nine-year jail sentence for Fenian activities, Mary O'Connor's brother was one of the youngest MPs in the Irish party, while the Land League had been planned in the Page 16 home of two other women activistsBee and Margaret Walsh, from Balla, County Mayo. Hannah Lynch had gone to convent school abroad and travelled extensively as a governess, an experience the women were to find extremely useful. As well as the executive, there was a reserve executive of 21 women, prepared to take the place of anyone arrested.