Women, Politics, and the Irish Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution

The late-eighteenth-century ''age of revolutions'' has long been identified as a key moment in the gendering of modern democratic politics, one which opened up new debates on the ''rights of women'' while often re-affirming the masculinity of the political citizen. In Ireland, the revolutionary era saw the rise of the radical United Irish movement, mass popular mobilisation, and reached a violent ...