Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction

1Towards Revolutionary Politics: 1889-1922
2Civil War Imprisonment
3Post-Jail Propaganda
4Literature and Cultural Protest
5Parliamentary Politics and the Establishment of Fianna Fail
6The Politics of War: Irish and European Perspectives
7Critiquing Gender Roles
8Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Leeann Lane is a lecturer in the School of History and Geography, Dublin City University. She is author of Rosamond Jacob: Third Person Singular (UCD Press 2010). She is a member of the Expert Advisory Group on Centenaries appointed by the government in 2012.

Reviews

'Dr. Lane's close reading of Macardle's reportage, plays, fiction, poetry and what is known of her life produces a rounded examination of the development of her political and social intellect set in the context of the revolution and the lean years that followed, and is a welcome addition to the growing historiography on female activists and feminist politics in the early years of the state.' Irish Literary Supplement, Spring 2021 |||| 'Leeann Lane’s study brings together personal writings, archival material, political propaganda and literary publications to reconstruct the fascinating life of an individual whose involvement in cultural and political life is undoubtedly deserving of attention.' Irish Historical Studies, Nov 2020 'Dorothy Macardle was much more than de Valera's mouthpiece: she was a politically persuasive and stoically independent woman'. Leeann Lane in the Irish Independent, November 2019