The participation of women in Irish nationalist movements in the nineteenth century is an importa... more The participation of women in Irish nationalist movements in the nineteenth century is an important, if still largely unexplored, arena for research in gender studies. Allied to it is the question of the extent to which a feminist agenda can be detected in the ideologies of Irish nationalism throughout the nineteenth century. This article will examine the participation of women in the movement in the 1840s which, after the example of such continental movements as 'Young Italy', came to be called 'Young Ireland'a label first affixed to it derisively by its enemies, but later taken up proudly by its members.' This article will examine prose pieces and some poems written by women, together with the responses to them by men, in theYoung Ireland newspaper the Nation, published between 1843 and the paper's suppression in July 1848, as well as female contributions, published between February and May 1848, to John Mitchel's more militant paper, the United Irishma...
The participation of women in Irish nationalist movements in the nineteenth century is an importa... more The participation of women in Irish nationalist movements in the nineteenth century is an important, if still largely unexplored, arena for research in gender studies. Allied to it is the question of the extent to which a feminist agenda can be detected in the ideologies of Irish nationalism throughout the nineteenth century. This article will examine the participation of women in the movement in the 1840s which, after the example of such continental movements as 'Young Italy', came to be called 'Young Ireland'a label first affixed to it derisively by its enemies, but later taken up proudly by its members.' This article will examine prose pieces and some poems written by women, together with the responses to them by men, in theYoung Ireland newspaper the Nation, published between 1843 and the paper's suppression in July 1848, as well as female contributions, published between February and May 1848, to John Mitchel's more militant paper, the United Irishma...
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