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The Female Shadow of a Gunman: Feminism, Combatants, and the Challenge to Irish Nationalism

In Steinmetz Symposium

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Title
The Female Shadow of a Gunman: Feminism, Combatants, and the Challenge to Irish Nationalism
Department(s)
English
Creator(s)
Noonan-Stoner, Hope
Advisor(s)
Bracken, Claire
Judith, Lewin
Date of Original
5/22/2020
Physical Description
video/mp4
Description

The Irish Free State's narrative of independence proclaimed "Bold, Fenian, Men." This study challenges this male-centered history by focusing on women involved in the early twentieth century anti-colonial struggle. I explore the lives of the Gifford sisters, Grace, an artistically-gifted political icon, and Sidney, a trans-Atlantic journalist and paramilitary organizer, relying on historical and literary analysis of unconventional texts including pension records, witness statements and political cartoons. The sisters' self-portrayals destabilize the traditional categories that characterize modern Irish nationalism: combatant versus noncombatant, revolutionary versus mother, and feminist versus nationalist. In turn, this challenge forces a rewriting of the Irish State's foundation, twentieth-century Irish feminism and a falsely monolithic Irish identity. My Steinmetz presentation will focus on the connections between Sidney's and Grace's feminist and nationalist activism and how their confrontations with the mid-century Irish state expose the inherent complexities between individual feminine identities and collective national identity.

Genre
presentations (communicative events)
Publisher of Digital Record

Union College Schaffer Library Digital Projects

Source
Union College Schaffer Library Special Collections
Contact Information

Union College Schaffer Library Special Collections, 807 Union St., Schenectady, NY 12308; 518-388-6620; https://www.union.edu/schaffer-library

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https://www.union.edu/special-collections/language
Subject headings

Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.). Department of English

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