“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.
‘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.
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”
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