Informationen zum Autor Sonja Tiernan is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Liverpool Hope University Klappentext Academics, postgraduate and undergraduate students in Irish and British social and cultural history. Zusammenfassung Academics! postgraduate and undergraduate students in Irish and British social and cultural history. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introducing the Gore-Booth family 1 Life in the big house: childhood and Lissadell 2 A pair of oddities: meeting Esther Roper 3 The birth of a rebel: social reform in Manchester 4 Sadder and wiser women: Lancashire trade unions 5 Women who kick, shriek, bite and spit: suffragists and suffragettes 6 Defending barmaids: legislative proposals and Winston Churchill 7 World War One: from trade unionism to peace movements 8 Conscientious objectors and revolution: world war and an Irish rebellion 9 Roger Casement and the aftermath of the Easter Rising 10 Prison reform and military conscription in Ireland 11 Radical sexual politics and post-war religion 12 Final years Afterword Bibliography of Archival Sources Major publications by Eva Gore-Booth NotesIndex

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Sonja Tiernan is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Liverpool Hope University

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Academics, postgraduate and undergraduate students in Irish and British social and cultural history.

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Introducing the Gore-Booth family 1 Life in the big house: childhood and Lissadell 2 A pair of oddities: meeting Esther Roper 3 The birth of a rebel: social reform in Manchester 4 Sadder and wiser women: Lancashire trade unions 5 Women who kick, shriek, bite and spit: suffragists and suffragettes 6 Defending barmaids: legislative proposals and Winston Churchill 7 World War One: from trade unionism to peace movements 8 Conscientious objectors and revolution: world war and an Irish rebellion 9 Roger Casement and the aftermath of the Easter Rising 10 Prison reform and military conscription in Ireland 11 Radical sexual politics and post-war religion 12 Final years Afterword Bibliography of Archival Sources Major publications by Eva Gore-Booth Notes Index