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Laura McAtackney, Associate Professor in Sustainable Heritage Management (Archaeology) at Denmark’s Århus University in Newman House this afternoon

You may recall the free seminar – Revolting Women: Irish Feminist, Labour and Nationalist Movements 1913-1923 – is under way today in Newman House, Stephen’s Green, Dublin.

From the event…

#RevoltingWomen the walls of Kilmainham reveal how the women prisoners learned & practised Irish @LMcAtackney

— Katherine O’Donnell (@Ka_ODonnell) October 16, 2015

#revoltingwomen @LMcAtackney analysing 10,000 photographs of graffiti taken by her in Kilmainham Gaol

— Katherine O’Donnell (@Ka_ODonnell) October 16, 2015

@LMcAtackney reveals A lot of anti-Free State graffiti in Kilmainham Gaol #revoltingwomen — Katherine O’Donnell (@Ka_ODonnell) October 16, 2015

#revoltingwomen @LMcAtackney found over 100 portraits etched into Kilmainham Gaol walls. What is the intent motivating the trace?

— Katherine O’Donnell (@Ka_ODonnell) October 16, 2015

#RevoltingWomen @LMcAtackney telling us that much of the Kilmainham graffiti was covered over/removed — Claire McGettrick (@cmcgettrick) October 16, 2015

#RevoltingWomen @LMcAtackney – flash on camera revealed a drawing not viewable via naked eye, v similar to Markievicz drawing

— Claire McGettrick (@cmcgettrick) October 16, 2015

#RevoltingWomen @WillMurphy8 Suffragettes were first to use prison hunger strikes in Ireland

— Katherine O’Donnell (@Ka_ODonnell) October 16, 2015

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Pic: Claire McGettrick

Constance Markievicz

Interested in the role of Irish women during the violent birth of modern Ireland?

Then get thee to the Newman House on St Stephen’s Green, Dublin on Friday, from 2pm until 6pm, for a free seminar, entitled Revolting Women: Irish Feminist, Labour and Nationalist Movements 1913-1923.

They say:

“The seminar showcases the archaeological work of Laura McAtackney who recorded and analysed the graffiti on the walls and prison cells of Kilmainham Gaol, particularly focussing on the graffiti by women political prisoners.

The seminar will also reveal key findings from papers by political revolutionary women which have been hitherto overlooked in public archives.”

“Papers by Will Murphy, Rosemary Cullen-Owens, Dr Ann Matthews and Padraig Yeates examine how gender roles and divisions came into play in this era and also how the position of women in Ireland today might frame a certain number of key questions in historical research.”

“A closing roundtable of Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Linda Connolly and Margaret Ward addresses the wider questions of why history matters to those of us interested in gender relations, and the more contested question of why gender matters in history writing.”

Revolting Women: Irish Feminist, Labour & Nationalist Movements 1913-1923 (Eventbrite)

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