Join us for a public lecture by historian Professor Linda Connolly, Maynooth University on the importance of intergenerational grassroots women's groups in Ireland, 1937-75.

“It has been a long continuous battle in which many women have struggled to gain equality, each generation adding something to the achievements of the past" (Hilda Tweedy, Irish Housewives Association)

About the speaker:
Prof. Linda Connolly is Professor of Sociology and Director, Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute. She was the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies Visiting Scholar during the Lent Term 2022. Her research interests include feminism and the women’s movement in Ireland, gender theory, the family, conflict related violence including sexual violence, wars, migration, and theoretical and methodological debates in Irish studies. She is the author of several recent publications including on the gender-based violence women experienced in the Irish Revolution (1919-23) and led the Irish Research Council funded 'Women and the Irish Revolution' project.

She has published a number of books, supported by national and European research grants, including The Irish Women’s Movement: From Revolution to Devolution (London and New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003), Documenting Irish Feminisms: the Second Wave(with Tina O’Toole, republished in 2020, Galway: Arlen Press), Social Movements and Ireland (with Niamh Hourigan, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006), The Irish Family (London: Routledge, 2014), and Women and the Irish Revolution: Feminism, Activism, Violence (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2020). She recently contributed to the RTE Documentary on One “A Dark Night in Foxford.”

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This lecture will take place in the Palatine Room at Collins Barracks from 5pm until 6:30pm.

Booking is required to attend this event.

Please RSVP by following this link: AHRC Women's Grassroots Activism research network - Public Lecture Tickets, Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite