Dr Catherine Healy
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Talking History with Patrick Gagan.
This is News Talk.
Yeah, Esther Roper came from a very different background to the Gore Boots, born into a working class Irish family.
She had been prominent in the suffrage movement and in workers' rights in Manchester.
And it was that connection that was made in Italy that drew Eva to Manchester in 1897 to live with
Esther, they set up home in a terraced house in a working class neighbourhood.
So quite a shift, as you can imagine, from the world she had grown up in among the gentry in Sligo.
The Gore Boots had owned land actually in Manchester and in Salford for generations, but Eva hadn't known the place before moving.
It was a city of pretty stark extremes at this point.
You know, the Grand Boulevard with merchant houses just a few streets away from some of the most overcrowded slums in Britain.
And of course, there was a very large Irish community in Manchester at the time.
And they were really at the very bottom rung, both in terms of their housing and their employment.
So this is where Eva really came to grips with
the realities of industrial Britain, where she really began to refine her socialist thinking and began to advocate, particularly on behalf of female workers who were paid, of course, significantly less than their male counterparts.
She drew a direct line between what she was seeing on the ground, the conditions affecting women workers and the fact that women didn't have the vote.
You know, women's lack of political power was part of this machinery that was keeping them locked into poverty.
And that kind of intersectional feminism is something that carries through right throughout the remainder of her political career.
That's right, yeah.
I mean, Sonia's done great work kind of uncovering her work on behalf of different cohorts of female labourers.
The barmaids in particular, she campaigned against restrictions on their employment in 1908.
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