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Lá Na MBan
Lá na mBan (Women's Day) took place across Ireland on 9 June 1918. It was a mass anti-conscription protest organised by Cumann na mBan, the Irish Women Workers' Union, Irish Women Workers Union (IWWU) and other women's organisations, in which women pledged not to do the jobs of men should they be conscripted into the British Army during World War I.Frawley, Oona (2021). ''Women and the decade of commemorations''. Irish culture, memory, place. Bloomington (Ind.): Indiana University Press. pp. 117–123. Thousands of Irish women signed the pledge on 9 June and subsequent days.Ward, Margaret (2021). ''Unmanageable Revolutionaries, Women and Irish Nationalism 1880-1980''. Arlen House. pp. 227–231. The pledge read: The names of signatories were recorded in ledgers, though few of these records still exist.Ward, Margaret. "Lá na mBan 1918 – An Irishwoman's Diary on Kilkenny's protest against conscription". ''The Irish Times''. Retrieved 2023-06-12. The pledge could also be signe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland
Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelanda sovereign state covering five-sixths of the island) and Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdomcovering the remaining sixth). It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the List of islands of the British Isles, second-largest island of the British Isles, the List of European islands by area, third-largest in Europe, and the List of islands by area, twentieth-largest in the world. As of 2022, the Irish population analysis, population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the List of European islands by population, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
