Eva Gore-Booth An Image of Such Politics

by Tiernan, Sonja

• ISBN13: 9780719082320
• ISBN10: 0719082323
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-22
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This is the first dedicated biography of the extraordinary Irish woman, Eva Gore-Booth. Gore-Booth rejected her aristocratic heritage choosing to live and work amongst the poorest classes in industrial Manchester. Her work on behalf of barmaids, circus acrobats, flower sellers and pit-brow lasses is traced in this book. During one impressive campaign Gore-Booth orchestrated the defeat of Winston Churchill. Gore-Booth published volumes of poetry, philosophical prose and plays, becoming a respected and prolific author of her time and part of W.B. Yeats' literary circle. The story of Gore-Booth's life is captivating. Her close bond with her sister, an iconic Irish nationalist, provides a new insight into Countess Markievicz's personal life. Gore-Booth's life story vividly traces her experiences of issues such as militant pacifism during the Great War, the case for the reprieve of Roger Casement's death sentence, sexual equality in the workplace and the struggle for Irish independence.

Author Biography

Sonja Tiernan is Lecturer in Modern History at Liverpool Hope University and Secretary of the Women's History Association of Ireland

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xvii
Introducing the Gore-Booth family	p. 1
Life in the big house: childhood and Lissadell	p. 10
A pair of oddities: meeting Esther Roper	p. 28
The birth of a rebel: social reform in Manchester	p. 45
Sadder and wiser women: Lancashire trade unions	p. 68
Women who kick, shriek, bite and spit: suffragists and suffragettes	p. 91
Defending barmaids: legislative proposals and Winston Churchill	p. 111
World War One: from trade unionism to peace movements	p. 135
Conscientious objectors and revolution: world war and an Irish rebellion	p. 155
Roger Casement and the aftermath of the Easter Rising	p. 179
Prison reform and military conscription in Ireland	p. 203
Radical sexual politics and post-war religion	p. 224
Final years	p. 246
Afterword	p. 255
Archival sources	p. 265
Major publications by Eva Gore-Booth	p. 267
Index	p. 271
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