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i think the saddest part is the women who took part in the rising and other rebellions in the 1900s knew this would happen. they fought so hard to keep the church seperate from the new Irish state and the men they fought with abandoned them and shunned them from society
Helena Moloney, the woman who used her makeup skills from being an actress to disguise Jim Larkin so he could give the speech during the lockout, who fought during the rising and was a socialist to the bone was basically exiled from politics bc of her criticism of the church
It’s important when we talk about Ireland gaining its (partial) independence we talk about how women were not only essential to the movement, but also largely abandoned once power had been achieved by the men. I feel like Markievicz is often used as a distraction from this point.
When we ask for women’s stories from the rising to be told it’s not just “female badass” representation we need it’s an actual analysis of the events after the war of in. and how that led to women and children dying at the hands of church and state. Because there’s a direct link.
