Mary McSwiney
by Leeann Lane
ISBN: 9781739086381
Published: 2025-03
Leading biographer of women in Irish history Leeann Lane delves into newly discovered material across archives to tell Mary MacSwiney's story. Until now, an in-depth analysis of any female figures in Irish republicanism in the early twentieth century has been limited. Mary MacSwiney was one of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women, leading Eamon de Valera to describe her as "incorrigible." Rather than dismiss MacSwiney as one-dimensional in her opposition to the Treaty and in her continued political intractability, this biography places her story at the center of the narrative to understand why she was increasingly viewed as a virago. To say contemporary gender roles played a part in reducing MacSwiney to a cipher for extreme republicanism is only part of the story. Her uncompromising stance against the evils of compromise during the Treaty negotiations was indelibly formed by the experience of watching her brother Terence MacSwiney die on a hunger strike in 1920 and the trauma...
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