Les Républicaines dans le conflit nord-irlandais, entre dissidence et continuité
Irishwomen have always played an important part in the nationalist struggle though they have been largely overlooked in the historiography. After partition, and the Civil War (1922-1923) that followed, women were airbrushed out of the national narrative as the new state in the south tried to impose...
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Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique
2024-05-01
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| Series: | Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/11927 |
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| Summary: | Irishwomen have always played an important part in the nationalist struggle though they have been largely overlooked in the historiography. After partition, and the Civil War (1922-1923) that followed, women were airbrushed out of the national narrative as the new state in the south tried to impose stability by celebrating traditional values, which were enshrined in the 1937 Constitution. In the north, as the peaceful Civil Rights movement initiated by students towards the end of the 1960s gave way to violence all around Northern Ireland and the Irish Republican Army was revived, women joined the ranks of the Provisional IRA and Cumann na mBan en masse. Hence, women were part of the Provisional movement and participated in the armed struggle that lasted until the Good Friday Agreement, or Belfast Agreement, of 1998. Cumann na mBan is also the longest-running paramilitary organization still in operation today, ever since its creation in 1914 – which puts the women who took part in the conflict, in the ranks of Cumann na mBan, but also in the ranks of the IRA once they were accepted in it, in direct continuity with their foremothers from the revolutionary period. I therefore propose to look at the women who took part in the conflict in Northern Ireland, in an oral history perspective, in order to explore the tension between continuity – that of the Irish nationalist movement from the turn of the last century, and “dissidence” – that is to say the refusal of the end of both conflict and violence as the aim of a united Ireland is still not achieved. |
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| ISSN: | 0248-9015 2429-4373 |