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Dec 14, 2019 · Her book Children of Europe (1949) addressed themes of displacement, harm done to children (“appears immeasurable”) and the need for international solidarity. In preparing this book she ...
- Leeann Lane
12 quotes from Dorothy Macardle: 'They subordinate the whole to the part. It is no longer life they are celebrating, nor nature, but some crude, fanatical party creed. I am afraid that doing things for their own sake will soon be a luxury for children and perhaps for freaks like you and me.', 'In the city so much of your life is lived for you ...
As the trust between Macardle and de Valera developed, de Valera asked Macardle to travel to County Kerry to investigate and document what later became known as the Ballyseedy massacre of March 1923, in which a number of unarmed republican prisoners were reported to have been killed in reprisals.
The career of Dorothy Macardle serves as an interesting and revealing case study concerning the course taken by politically active republican women after Irish independence in 1922.
- Ceillie Clark-Keane
- 2015
Mar 21, 2016 · Dorothy Macardle’s vast The Irish Republic first appeared in 1937, the year in which her inspiration and her patron de Valera unveiled Bunreacht na hÉireann, his own monument to pragmatic republicanism.
Apr 26, 2019 · According to the Republican historian Dorothy MacArdle, in the 19 th century Ireland was governed, ‘almost continuously since the Act of Union’ by Coercion Acts, which ‘made every expression of national feeling a crime’.
at weakening the IRA by arresting female republican advocates like Dorothy Macardle, Maire Comerford, and Mary Mac Swiney. Though Macardle and others protested their detention by going on a hunger strike, many were held without charge until the end of the civil war in 1923. Writing to the Freeman s Journal the Irish Times, and the Irish Independent
