Women's rights campaigner and Sinn Féin co|founder Jennie Wyse ...

1916 Portrait Collection - Canvas Prints - Avoca Studio Gallery

In December 1918, she was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat and, along with the other Sinn Féin TDs, ...

Missing Women - Mná 100 - Mna100.ie

Mary MacSwiney brought forward a resolution that reaffirmed allegiance to the Republic of Ireland. Jennie Wyse Power proposed an amendment to accept. 63 members ...

Women's rights and the national struggle, 1916-1922

... Sinn Fein, Aine Ceannt, Jennie Wyse Power, Helena Moloney and Grace Plunkett were co-opted. Kathleen Lynn, who had been standing in for an ...

A biography of Fr. Michael O'Flanagan by Martin Byrne - Carrowkeel

... work full-time for Sinn Féin, being was the main platform speaker and campaigner during the 1918 election. He was President of Sinn Féin from 1933 to 1935.

The Ladies' Land League and the Development of Irish Nationalism

Wyse Power, Sinn Fein Weekly, p.3. 68. Parnell, The Tale of a Great Sham, 123. 69. William O'Brien, Recollections (London, 1905), 382. 70. Ibid.; Jenny Wyse ...

The Contribution of Irish Women as documented in the Archival ...

After the Rising Cumann na mBan campaigned for Sinn. Féin and exhorted women to use their newly acquired right to vote for Sinn Féin in the 1918 General ...

1912 - diarmuid lynch 1878-1950 revolutionary irishman & patriot

Irish suffragettes stepped up their campaign for womens voting rights in the new Home Rule Bill. ... Jennie Wyse-Power, vice-president Sinn Fein. The meeting ...

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This week's Historical Women's Wednesday focuses around Jennie Wyse Power. The nationalist and suffragist that actually has historical ties ...

'Suffrage First-Above All Else!' An Account of the Irish Suffrage ...

Giving the vote to the working class and women would assist the rise of Sinn Fein, while a redistribution of seats would strengthen the Unionists in Ulster. The ...

Explore Irish women's history over the last 100 years

The meeting in the Mansion House was presided over by Jennie Wyse Power. Ali Morris will share her expertise and new insights on the ...

Welcome to Irish Genealogy - Irish Genealogy

... Sinn Féin. According to Nancy Wyse Power (Jennie's daughter), Mac Diarmada was 'constantly there'. She also states the Proclamation was signed in a private ...

Walking Through the Wars: From Grangegorman to the Four Courts ...

Jennie was a founder member of Cumann na. mBan in 1914 and its first president in 1915, a member of Cumann na dTeachtaire (a women's group within Sinn Féin) and ...

Uncovering Women's Histories at Richmond Barracks - SSOAR

Women like Jennie Wyse Power, a nationalist and suffragist, who had been a fervent campaigner since her teenage years; she was a co- founder of the cultural ...

'Sinn Féin permits … in the heels of their shoes': Cumann na mBan ...

I will outline how the female activists in the Provisional Republican Movement remember their time during the Northern Irish Troubles. In the years 2009 to 2011 ...

Importance to women activists of the promise of equal citizenship ...

women to defend the women's rights. Under the proposed constitution ... Jennie Wyse Power, argued that the inclusion of articles which ...

Making politics normal in: Democracy and dissent in the Irish Free ...

... right division and that the prominence of nationalist issues and the Sinn Féin Party would ... Jennie Wyse Power. While the Seánad did ...

By A Treaty Divided-The Civil War In Cork

The Sinn Féin ... In March 1922, Cumman na mBan formally split when Jennie Wyse Power and other pro-Treaty members established Cumann na Saoirse.

Volunteer Women: Militarized Femininity in the 1916 Easter Rising

the nationalist movement, such as Jennie Wyse-Power and Kathleen Clarke, had already ... already been active in the Sinn Féin movement, as well as ...

THE REVOLUTIONARY AIMS OF IRELAND'S FORGOTTEN ...

Just two women were employed in official capaci- ties by the DFA: Nancy Wyse Power and Máire O'Brien. III. Like other diplomats in the Irish ...

Writing History, Making History, Rewriting History. Women in Ireland ...

At the Sinn Fein Convention in October 1917, Helena Molony with Jennie Wyse Power (founder member of Cumann na mBan) put forward a proposal ...