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This podcast examines events of 100 years ago and women’s participation in seeking peace - from chairing the Peace Committee meetings in May to delegations organised in June and July 1922 as hostilities in the Civil War escalated. It explores the historic background to those delegations, profiling some of the participants. Maud Gonne MacBride organised delegations. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Charlotte Despard and Rosamond Jacob of the Irishwomen’s International League participated. It also explores the League’s links to the wider peace movement of that time, such as the role of Jane Addams and the organisation of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

By looking at these historic events through a wider lens, Mná 100 also reflects on some of the achievements and personal experiences of the podcast participants. The podcast features three women; the first female President of Ireland and Chair of The Elders, Mary Robinson; Áine Hearns, Director of the Conflict Resolution Unit at the Department of Foreign Affairs; and Maria Butler, Deputy Secretary General of the Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom, who in May 2022 has just been appointed as Executive Director of the Nobel Women’s Initiative.

The Maud Gonne McBride audio is used with kind permission from the Military Archives.

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This episode explores a lesser known aspect of the life of Constance de Markievicz, as an artist, actress, playwright, poet, and lyrist. Her artistic talents are the backdrop to a conversation with 3 of Ireland’s contemporary female artists, whose practice exemplifies those disciplines today. They reflect on Markievicz as a ‘Touchstone’ between our past and present

All three Artists are recipient winners of the Markievicz Bursary Award, in conjunction with the Arts Council; from 2019 Poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin, author of Bloodroot and part of the (S)worn State(s) collaborative poetry project, from 2020, Writer Joanna Walsh whose work is informed by other art forms as demonstrated in her digital novella Seed and from 2021, Actress, Director and Writer Barbara Bergin, whose acting credits include The Van, Intermission, Love is a Drug (which she also co-wrote) and On the Couch (which she also created, directed and co-wrote).

Mná100 is a new online women’s initiative, for the final phase of the Decade of Centenaries Programme and continues the work in highlighting the role of women in the revolutionary period. Visit www.mna100.ie to learn more.

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The Mná 100 Podcast series reflects on some of the women who helped shape Ireland’s history as part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme.

Episode one focuses on the events of May 1921, when 8 women were elected to Parliament in Ireland, both north and south of a newly formed border.

As we try to get a sense of who these women were, what information can be found to guide us? To help us in our search, we will speak to Librarians, Archivists, Curators, Historians, and Education & Outreach Officers at Ireland’s National Cultural Institutions, who have gathered key documents, artefacts, and the personal belongings. What will we find and will they help us to connect the past to the present?

Assisting us in our journey is Katherine McSharry from the National Library of Ireland, Elizabeth McAvoy of the National Archive of Ireland, Brenda Malone and Helen Beaumont from the National Museum of Ireland, and Niamh Baker from the Ulster Museum, Northern Ireland. 

This podcast is produced by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, for Mná 100 – a new online women’s initiative for the final phase of the Decade of Centenaries. For more information visit www.mna100.ie 

Attributions:

Dr Lucy Collins reading The Mother by PH Pearse. Available in fll on: Irish Times. Used with permission. 

Dawn Bradfield – Reading from Kate O’Callaghan’s The Case of Michael O’Callaghan (made in partnership with Limerick County Council’s Decade of Centenaries Programme). Available in full on the Mna100.ie.

Ulster Museum - 100 years on Making the Future participant Ellie reflects on an identity that has been shaped by a history of conflict and how we might look to the future with more honesty.

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The Mna100 Centenary Podcast will take an in-depth look at some of the women who helped shape Ireland’s history. Dr Sinead McCoole, an Irish historian with expertise in the history of Irish women from 1880 to the present day will be looking at the years 1912 - 1923, as Ireland continues this Decade of Centenaries.

Episode one will focus on the events of May of 1921 when 8 women were elected in Ireland, in parliament both north and south of a newly formed border.

As we try to get a sense of who these women were, what information can be found? Helping in the search we will speak to Librarians, Archivists, Curators, Historians, and Education & Outreach Officers, at Ireland’s National Cultural Institutions, who have gathered key documents, artifacts, and their personal belongings. What will they find and will they help us connect the past to the present?

This podcast is produced as part of the Women’s Strand of Decade of Centenaries, Commemorations Unit, Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media. For more information go to Mna100.ie 

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