“Post-Rising

Propaganda and

Republican

womanhood as the

'heroic subordinate”.

Dr Mary McAuliffe,

UCD Gender Studies

Thomas Kent

reburial, 2016

Grand-niece Nora Riordan, nieces Kathleen Kent and Prudence Riordan, at the burial.

Memorabilia of the 1916 ‘heroic dead’.

The Catholic Bulletin, December

1916

‘Easter’ Widows

and

Propaganda The women maintained the

revolutionary momentum

with imaginative and

effective Propaganda

campaigns

photographs of the widows

and orphans of the 1916

leaders published in The

Catholic Bulletin in

December 1916.

‘Easter ‘ Widows and Propaganda

Thomas Ashe death

and funeral

Thomas

Ashe Ashe Memorabilia

East-Clare campaign, July 1917

Republican womanhood

‘Don’t sympathise with me over

the loss of my sons. Congratulate

me. It was a grand thing to know

that I have had the privilege of

being the mother of two young

men who died battling for our

dear land’

Margaret Pearse

Cumann na mBan Uniform”

“Above the waist it was a

military tunic similar to that worn

by their counterparts in the

Volunteers, but below the waist

was a modest ankle-length skirt”

The Keepers of

the Flame

Kathleen Clarke, Countess

Markievicz, Kate

O’Callaghan and Margaret

Pearse, c. 1924.

Clarke, O’Callaghan, and

Mrs Pearse all still in widows

weeds.