The rarely spoken about violence suffered by women during the Irish revolution

Niall Murray speaks to Professor Linda Connolly and others leading the call for more intense examination of sexual and other violence suffered by women during the Irish revolution a century ago

“In January 1923, a party of men armed to the teeth and calling themselves Republicans forced their entrance into our house where in three people resided.”

This sentence in a July 1924 letter recounted an incident during the Troubles of a century ago in Ireland. But Mary M’s appeal to the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Edward Byrne was more concerned with her own ‘troubles’ than with the political and military turmoil of the period.