This short but vivid book fills a vital need for popular of those It tells, too, of the days when "things were not always when special calegory stalus was worl All prisoners benefitted improved prison conditions.
Then in 1976 special category status was spearheading the British Willulawil government's attempt to 'normalise' Northern Ireland. No war: therefore no prisoners or war Prisoners like Rose McAllister, Ann Marie Mulara describe and Eileen Mullan the war's effect on their personal lives and how they came to be actively involved in the nationalist struggle women talk and just the war as son lent in the Noes wonder thern Ireland battlefield, their LuCH Halllages. children, their hopes and fears. Strength The strength that women themselves, each other and fighting collectively as women for their independence DOLO women and as Irish people, shouts triumphantly Promosmost ever lister:
Rose 'The attitude then was that the man you marry is your master. I fought for my independence against this without realising it..
'What I liked best about those years... was the way women in the area organised themselves into vigilante groups and such, blowing whistles and banging bin lids and picketing at the drop of an insult. The Brits are terrified of women...
important always to fight back and women have the staying power for I was women who blocked the traffic for the first time ever in the centre hundreds 0, women, sitting down and could not have survived, heraly, wunout inem.. I wasn't aware that women were politics on the street. That's when eyes opened to the political power of women organ sing among themselves Jell McCafferty con cludes her book: I nal powerful dynamic has been set oft in Northern Ireland by the protest of the Armagh women political prisoners and Demonstrate outside Armagh women's prison on 8 March.
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To Armagh on Women's Day