what was the role of irish women inthe 1940s 1960s and now?

Question

i need it for my history project

Answer 1

Fishwives? lol

Answer 2

Patriarchy and Christian Feminism - Mary Kenny

http://www.jesuit.ie/studies/articles/2006/Kenny.htm

WEB SITES FOR WOMEN’S HISTORY

This site has a vast amount of links that you can explore.

http://www.cumbavac.org/Womens_History.htm

May O¹Brien was fifteen in 1947 when she started to work in Liberty Hall, the dark and down-at-heel union headquarters that sat brooding beside the River Liffey. The building had been shelled by the British army in 1916; as she approached it from Butt Bridge on her first day, she felt that few repairs had been done since. More…..

http://www.brandonbooks.com/november2004/cloudsonmywindow.htm

In the last 30 years women have come a long, long way. Our lives are nobler and richer than they were, but they are also fiendishly difficult...the contradictions women face have never been more bruising than they are now... On every side speechless women endure endless hardship, grief and pain in a world system that creates billions of losers for every handful of winners. It's time to get angry again. Germaine Greer1

http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj92/horgan.htm

http://www.jesuit.ie/studies/articles/2003/Kenny.htm

http://www.global-labour.org/pat_horn.htm

Changing women's lives in Ireland

http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj91/horgan.htm

It is hard now to imagine that, 150 years ago, society frowned on middle-class women who worked. For example, it was thought that financial independence would make such women less likely to marry. Certainly, a woman who worked would no longer be obliged to accept the first offer of marriage � and that would never do. More…..

http://www.iol.ie/~rjtechne/tyndall/tyndall_books/prometheus/reviews.htm#mulvihill

Éirinn go Brách

CAOIMHÍN, Liverpool, England.

Answer 3

well untill the last 15 years when southern ireland went into the EU pretty much everyone in ireland was very poor. i heard from my mother that her grandmother who was around in the 40s and lived all her life in ireland looked like a witch. she had long matted black hair and lived in a tiny stone house (2 rooms only) with her 14 kids. apparently they had one pig which they ate at christmas. the rest of the year they ate potatoes and cabbage which they grew in the garden. neither the kids or the mother had any shoes. she would send the kids off to walk 2 miles to school every day with no shoes on there feet. any way things are very different in ireland now, my nan has every mod con available a brand new car, beautiful house and plenty of money. her only role in life at the moment is cook for my grandad and shes down the bingo every night. hope this helps you.

Answer 4

in the 1940s and '60s, women mostly stayed at home as housewives, but some would have had good jobs. Even in the Easter rising, women were used to send messages because they were inconspicuous. Nowadays, women are equal rank (if not higher!) with men.

Answer 5

In the 40s and 60s Irish women were home makers tending to their families needs

Now they are beer swilling loud foul mouthed trollops whos only concern is booze and kebabs

Answer 6

my grandmother was irish and her role was to cook, clean, have children (chatholic) look after all the family ,she was also involved in a lot of church work (it was expected in the 40s) i i think still is if you are a good catholic girl ,lol you did as your husband told you to do , they called it loving subjection . that means you do as the church tells you ,if you did not you were a bad wife and mother we wrer lucky our grandad was nice to her but she still did as was expected of her it is still very much the same today i know i ama grandmother of 9 but not a catholic anymore best of luck with your project .

Answer 7

During the dates you mention they would clean and load the rifles for their husbands.
Now they just make Irish stew

Answer 8

Spud pickers , peg makers, ,,,,and now " getting pissed up at weekends!

Answer 9

guiness brewers