Decentring the Irish Land War: Women, politics and the private sphere

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dc.contributor.authorLaird, Heather
dc.contributor.editorCampbell, Fergus
dc.contributor.editorVarley, Tony
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-09T14:48:06Z
dc.date.available2021-06-09T14:48:06Z
dc.date.issued2013-11
dc.date.updated2021-06-09T14:31:02Z
dc.description.abstractIn historical accounts of Ireland in which the political is defined purely in terms of that which directly affects the state, and historical change is believed to be powered by these narrowly defined political forces, women, who were for the most part excluded from formal male political culture, tend to be assigned a marginal role. State-centred histories, in other words, are invariably patriarchal histories. One of the means employed to counteract this marginalization is to seek out examples of ‘exceptional’ women who did operate in the arena of the state, or close to it, and focus attention on them. While scholarship of this kind reminds us of the impressive contribution that women like Constance Markievicz made to Irish society, it fails to challenge the values and structures of the historiography it is supplementing. In this chapter, I demonstrate, with reference to women and agrarian unrest in the 1880s land agitation, that an historical framework which decentres familiar notions of power and the political is the most effective way to bring women in from the margins of Irish history. Relocating the ‘front’ of the Land War from the public sphere of organized politics to the civil domain of everyday life reveals the centrality of women to this episode in Irish history.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationLaird, H. (2013) 'Decentring the Irish Land War: Women, Politics and the Private Sphere', in Campbell, F. and Varley, T. (eds)., Land Questions in Modern Ireland. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 175-193. isbn: 9780719078804en
dc.identifier.doi10.7228/manchester/9780719078804.001.0001en
dc.identifier.endpage193en
dc.identifier.isbn9780719078804
dc.identifier.startpage175en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11455
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherManchester University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofLand Questions in Modern Ireland
dc.relation.urihttps://www.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7228/manchester/9780719078804.001.0001/upso-9780719078804-chapter-8en
dc.rights© 2013 Manchester University Press. While copyright as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission of both author and publisher.en
dc.subjectIrish Land Waren
dc.subjectRent Strikeen
dc.subjectAnti-Eviction Agitationen
dc.subjectLand League Hutsen
dc.subjectBoycottingen
dc.subjectFeminist Historiographyen
dc.subjectSubalternen
dc.subjectLadies' Land Leagueen
dc.titleDecentring the Irish Land War: Women, politics and the private sphereen
dc.typeBook chapteren
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