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They came from every class in society and all walks of life: titled ladies and shop assistants, doctors, housewives, laundry workers, artists and teachers. Some were married with children, others widowed and some mere schoolchildren.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThese are hidden stories that vividly recreate the characters, personalities and courage of Ireland's revolutionary women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eabsolutely riveting\u003c\/p\u003e -- South East Radio’s Morning Mix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eimpressive contribution to the decade of centenaries … a fine book and a very worthwhile counterweight to the overwhelmingly male view of the Rising and War of Independence that still prevails\u003c\/p\u003e -- The Tuam Herald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn outstanding book, painstakingly researched, accessibly structured and beautifully presented ... This is a book about who we are, peopled by familiar faces. Its pages are friends. Yes, it is a monument of sorts; certainly a tribute and a rich resource. More than anything, it is a great story waiting too long to be told.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Irish Independent * Irish Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is important to the study of the period and to the hidden history of women in Ireland\u003c\/p\u003e -- Dermot Bolger - The Sunday Tribune * The Sunday Tribune *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ea remarkable book\u003c\/p\u003e -- Irish Examiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'What amazed me was the extraordinary bravery of the women, which would never have been recorded had it not been for this book'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Irish Examiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Dr Margaret Ward 11\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eForeword: Finding Women 12\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Women Activists (1900–1916) 20\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: The Women of the Rising 34\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Women and the Road to Independence (1917–1921) 59\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: The Civil War (1922–1923) 88\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBiographies 139\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAppendix 1: Prisoner List – 1916 242\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAppendix 2: Prisoner List – Civil War 244\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNotes 266\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBibliography 286\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePicture Credits 312\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIndex 313\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"O'Brien Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742193594711,"sku":"9781847177896","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781847177896.jpg?v=1722247430"},{"product_id":"hot-planet-cool-media-socialist-polemics-on-war-propaganda-and-popular-culture-9781912992478","title":"Hot Planet, Cool Media: Socialist Polemics on","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Arab Spring and London riots through the era of Brexit and Trump, the Covid-19 pandemic and war in Europe, this volume collects eleven years of lively, informative and entertaining essays and polemics, focusing on media treatment of major global conflicts, political entanglements and culture-war squabbles.  --- Taking aim at the distortions and omissions of news reports and cultural narratives in the Western world, Stephen Harper highlights the dislocation between humanity's existential crisis and the failure of the corporate media to register its underlying causes - or even to entertain any real discussion of its solution. Instead, he argues, the media blithely serve the narrow interests of a global elite that is subjecting the planet to a reign of fire in the form of endless wars and ecological destruction.   --- Harper reviews contemporary journalistic, cinematic and televisual coverage, engaging with broad cultural topics such as 'cancel culture', the incel phenomenon and Covid conspiracy theories, as well as media events like the debate between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek. For all its eclecticism, Hot Planet, Cool Media has an ideological cohesiveness, rejecting popular left and right political positions and advocating the cause of socialism or communism in the Marxian sense of a classless, leaderless, moneyless society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface - 2011 - Tunisia and Egypt: New Media 'Revolutions'? (2\/2\/2011) - Sophisticated Sinophobia? 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(2\/9\/2014) - War Is Peace: Malala, Our Girl And 'Feminist' Imperialism (11\/10\/2014) - 2015 - Two Ways Not To Respond To The Charlie Hebdo Massacre (20\/1\/2015) - Disoriented: Adam Curtis's Bitter Lake (1\/2\/2015) - Oblique Strategies (15\/6\/2015) - Srebrenica Revisited, BBC-Style (9\/7\/2015) - On The Ashley Madison Hack (25\/8\/2015) - This Is What An Influx Looks Like (3\/9\/2015) - On Jeremy Corbyn (13\/10\/2015) - 2016 - The Eu Referendum: Not Our Fight (21\/6\/2016) - From Obama To Trump: An Orange Thermidor? (13\/11\/2016) - 2017 - Jolie Jingo (6\/3\/2017) - Shame And The Soldier Of Conscience (30\/4\/2017) - Oklahoma City And The Denial Of History (30\/4\/2017) - From Bosnia To Syria; 'Fake News', Imperialist Agendas (4\/5\/2017) - Evacuated: Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk (30\/7\/2017) - Inside The State Of Hate (1\/9\/2017) - 2018 - Getting Real About Depression (30\/1\/2018) - Syria And The Media: Neither Rt Nor The Bbc (3\/3\/2018) - Talk: The Media And Capitalism (6\/6\/2018) - The Lady Vanishes (28\/8\/2018) - 9\/11: What Happened And Who (Still) Cares? (11\/9\/2018) - 2019 - Christchurch: Media And Politicians Respond (21\/3\/2019) - Peterson-Zizek: Debate Of The Century? (1\/5\/2019) - Election Reflection (28\/5\/2019) - A Sense Of An Ending (28\/6\/2019) - People Power In Hong Kong (2\/8\/2019) - Communism Or Corbynism? That Is The Question (19\/11\/2019) - 2020 - Hot Planet, Cool Media (3\/1\/2020) - Cancel Culture: The Loony Left Lives (4\/4\/2020) - Covid And The Media: Myths And Mystifications (1\/5\/20) - The Return Of Black Lives Matter (5.7.20) - Making A Conspiracy Out Of A Crisis (2.8.20) - 2021 - Portrait Of The Incel As A Young-Girl (20\/07\/2021) - Entschlossenheit, Pet (29\/12\/21) - Postscript, Ukraine (5.3.2022) - Select Bibliography","brand":"Clairview Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742714114391,"sku":"9781912992478","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781912992478.jpg?v=1720062526"},{"product_id":"raymond-williams-a-warriors-tale-9781913640088","title":"Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Tale","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition celebrates the centenary of Williams's birth. 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Smith has done all that we can ask the historian as biographer to do.\" - Stefan Collini, London Review of Books \"Carrying an impressive deal of intensive research lightly... the portraiture throughout is graphic, richly detailed and subtly shaded... in these packed, lucidly written pages...\" - Terry Eagleton, New Welsh Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is Smith's ambition to set out the lonely, almost monastic path Raymond took through childhood, army and adult education towards his deserved eminence. But the biographer's greatest achievement is to find his own discerning route through what often seems to be a jungle of contradiction... This is a worthwhile book and a very good one.\" David Hare, The Guardian; \"It is a remarkable piece of work and will henceforth be essential to the understanding of the making of Raymond Williams.\" Eric Hobsbawm; \"Becomes at once the authoritative account... Smith has done all that we can ask the historian as biographer to do.\" Stefan Collini, London Review of Books; \"Carrying an impressive deal of intensive research lightly... the portraiture throughout is graphic, richly detailed and subtly shaded... in these packed, lucidly written pages...\" Terry Eagleton, New Welsh Review","brand":"Parthian Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742748062039,"sku":"9781913640088","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781913640088.jpg?v=1720062661"},{"product_id":"labour-country-political-radicalism-and-social-democracy-in-south-wales-1831-1985-9781913640491","title":"Labour Country: Political Radicalism and Social","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the end of WWI, one party has held the momentum of political and social change in south Wales: the Labour Party. Its triumph was never fully guaranteed. 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