Susie Deedigan - Republican women and prisoner support organisations, 1939-45 by History Hub published on 2021-04-14T18:35:28Z Susie Deedigan (QUB) - ‘It is to be assumed that members of C. na m Ban cannot be kept out of such a body!’: republican women and prisoner support organisations, 1939-45. Podcasts from the Women’s History Association of Ireland (WHAI) Annual Conference 2020 / 2021. The conference - Besieged bodies: Gendered Violence, Sexualities and Motherhood - the Women’s History Association of Ireland’s (WHAI) Annual Conference for 2020 / 2021. This online conference took place on four Fridays in March 2021 and was supported by the UCD Decade of Centenaries Fund, the UCD School of History, the UCD School of Gender Studies, UCD Centre for Gender, Feminisms and Sexualities (CGFS), and the UCD College of Arts and Humanities Fund. The podcasts are produced in association with History Hub. To listen to papers and conference keynotes go to historyhub.ie The WHAI conference was organised by Dr Mary McAuliffe, UCD Gender Studies and Dr Fionnuala Walsh, UCD History. This podcast features a paper from Gender and Political Activism which was a UCD Decade of Centenaries funded panel. The first paper in the panel was given by Susie Deedigan from QUB. The paper was entitled: ‘It is to be assumed that members of C. na m Ban cannot be kept out of such a body!’: republican women and prisoner support organisations, 1939-45. The chair was Dr Mary McAuliffe from UCD. Genre Irish history
