Irish Women and the Great War / Fionnuala Walsh, University College Dublin.
| Author/creator |
Walsh, Fionnuala, 1988- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. |
| Copyright Notice | ©2020 |
| Description | xi, 254 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subject(s) |
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| Series | Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare. ^A682997 |
| Contents | Mobilising for the War Effort -- Family, Welfare and Domestic Life -- Social Morality -- Working Lives -- Politicisation -- Demobilisation. |
| Abstract | "This is the first book-length study of the impact of the Great War on women's everyday lives in Ireland, focussing on the years of the war and its immediate aftermath. Fionnuala Walsh demonstrates how Irish women threw themselves into the war effort, mobilising in various different forms, such as nursing wounded soldiers, preparing hospital supplies and parcels of comforts, undertaking auxiliary military roles in port areas or behind the lines, and producing weapons of war. However, the war's impact was also felt beyond direct mobilisation, affecting women's household management, family relations, standard of living, and work conditions and opportunities. Drawing on extensive research in archives in Ireland and Britain, Walsh brings women's wartime experience out of the historical shadow and examines welfare and domestic life, bereavement, social morality, employment, war service, politicisation, and demobilisation to challenge ideas of emancipation and reflect upon the significant impact of the Great War on Irish society."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Walsh, Fionnuala, 1988- Irish women and the Great War. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 9781108867924 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2019056015 |
| ISBN | 9781108491204 |
| ISBN | 1108491200 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781108811736 paperback |
| ISBN | 1108811736 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | D547.I6 W348 2020 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |