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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
constance markievicz
history ireland hedge school - Women of the Irish Revolution—Constance Markievicz
bbc radio 4 - great lives - Constance Markievicz
richmond barracks - the 1918 election of countess markievicz
DR. KATHLEEN LYNN
irish film institute (IFI) - KATHLEEN LYNN: THE REBEL DOCTOR
mary robinson
president of ireland -
READING OF MARY ROBINSON'S inauguration address
text 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
opw - Online Suffragette Tour of Dublin Castle
THE IRISH TIMES - CENTURY: WOMEN AND THE VOTE
How Irish women won the right to vote in 1918
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
oireachtas.ie - vótáil 100
the irish times - vote 100
the ban on contraception
bbc world service - witness - The Irish Contraceptive Train
MORE RESOURCES
mná 100
RTÉ brainstorm - How Irish State legislation restricted women in the workplace
houses of the oireachtas - Documentary: in our own words
rté news - Why were women absent from Irish juries for 50 years?
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FOCUS TASK
Explain three ways life for women in twentieth-century Ireland changed from the 1960s onwards.
revision
chronicles - quizlet set: women in twentieth-century ireland
test your knowledge
chronicles - quizlet test: women in twentieth-century ireland [printable]
Answer the multiple choice questions.