Held at the Irish Embassy in London, this discussion program focused on the role of women in the Easter Rising.
Some of them acted in supporting roles, providing food and succor for the male rebel leaders; but others took more active involvement in political demonstrations against the British colonizers. As with women in many other walks of life during World War One, women in Ireland learned how transcend the social roles imposed on them and acquired new forms of independence as well as self-determination. Their example provided a template for others to follow in the future.
With questions from a skeptical audience of Irish as well as English spectators, this program offered a useful starting-point for further analysis of the ways in which gender roles were questioned during that time.
Some of them acted in supporting roles, providing food and succor for the male rebel leaders; but others took more active involvement in political demonstrations against the British colonizers. As with women in many other walks of life during World War One, women in Ireland learned how transcend the social roles imposed on them and acquired new forms of independence as well as self-determination. Their example provided a template for others to follow in the future.
With questions from a skeptical audience of Irish as well as English spectators, this program offered a useful starting-point for further analysis of the ways in which gender roles were questioned during that time.