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dc.contributor.authorREINISCH, Dieter
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-13T11:12:49Z
dc.date.available2018-12-13T11:12:49Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationIrish political studies, 2019, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 420-443en
dc.identifier.issn0790-7184
dc.identifier.issn1743-9078
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/60168
dc.descriptionPublished online: 12 Dec 2018
dc.description.abstractThe split of Sinn Féin and the IRA in 1969 established a lasting schism within Irish Republicanism. Historians tend to narrate the split as the result of an intense struggle between two opposing factions led by men. However, women performed an important role in the Republican movement throughout the twentieth century. This article analyses how women reacted to the factional struggle in the movement between 1967 and 1970. Contrary to the general perception of women as passive subjects in this factional struggle, I argue that Republican women had agency in this process. This agency allowed them to perform an independent role in the factional struggle, empowering them to stage the first public show of strength opposing the leadership at Bodenstown 1968. This process was later marked by the departure of the women’s organisation Cumann na mBan from the movement; by foreshadowing the later split, the Republican women became, as I will argue, de-facto ‘the first Provisionals’. Based on interviews with Republican women, the article outlines the role of women in one of the most significant splits of Irish Republicanism and provides an understanding of how Irish women shaped the politics of the Republican movement during the evolving Northern Irish conflict.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en
dc.relation.ispartofIrish political studiesen
dc.titleWomen's agency and political violence : Irish Republican women and the formation of the provisional IRA, 1967–70en
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/07907184.2018.1554565
dc.identifier.volume34
dc.identifier.startpage420
dc.identifier.endpage443
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