Exploring people, culture and ideas
Learning Outcome 2.9: Explain how the experience of women in Irish society changed during the twentieth century.

featured RESOURCE:

Virtual Tour of the Pop Up Women's Museum. Click on the image below.

female figures
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constance markievicz

history ireland hedge school - Women of the Irish Revolution—Constance Markievicz

bbc radio 4 - great lives - ​Constance Markievicz 
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richmond barracks - the 1918 election of countess markievicz

DR. KATHLEEN LYNN
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irish film institute (IFI) - KATHLEEN LYNN: THE REBEL DOCTOR

mary robinson

president of ireland - 
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READING OF MARY ROBINSON'S inauguration address


test of inauguration address, 1990

Women's suffrage

century ireland - The international story of the women’s suffrage movement

uk history association - women's suffrage - history and citizenship resources for schools

THE IRISH STORY - ​Women, the Vote and Nationalist Revolution in Ireland
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opw - Online Suffragette Tour of Dublin Castle


​THE IRISH TIMES - CENTURY: WOMEN AND THE VOTE
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How Irish women won the right to vote in 1918
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evan boland poem - Our future will become the past of other women


​historypod extra - women secure the right to vote...

investigate a repository of historical evidence

rté archives - women in irish society

century ireland - the suffrage movement

the library of trinity college dublin - exhibition -  violence, ridicule and silence
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oireachtas.ie - vótáil 100
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the irish times - vote 100

the ban on contraception

bbc world service - witness - The Irish Contraceptive Train

MORE RESOURCES

mná 100 

houses of the oireachtas - Documentary: in our own words


​rté news - Why were women absent from Irish juries for 50 years?

FOCUS TASK
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revision
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test your knowledge
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