Dr Mary McAuliffe
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Oh, yeah, it was very much.
She was very much a radical suffragist, a writer.
And as Sonia's explained, she had so many other aspects to her character and to her public work.
She was also in touch with a lot of the Irish women, radicals themselves, not just her sister, Constance Markievicz.
And of course, they collaborated on activism there.
But because she was living in England and there was always that tension between the Irish suffragists and the British suffragists, no more than because of the influence of, of course, nationalism at the time.
She got forgotten in many ways in the histories, her activism was.
her communication with the Irish suffrage women.
And also she was a pacifist.
So a lot of them were very much engaged with the national question, even her own sister, who said that there were three great fights, the women's question, the question of labour, both of which Eva would have been working on, but also the fight for Irish freedom.
And that really, there was a tension there in terms of her pacifism.
Although it is after the 1916 Rising, she actually came over to Dublin.
And because she looked a bit like Constance, a lot of people thought that Constance Markievicz had been released early when she was walking around Dublin.
And they supported each other.
So there must have been a certain part of her that supported the fight for Irish freedom as well.
But I think, as Sonia explained, because of the women she was working for, the bar workers, the women down the mines, those working class women, it wasn't seen as fitting in with the very middle class suffrage campaign for the right to vote.
Now, there were women in Dublin who were also campaigning for women, working class women, but they weren't in the majority in the suffrage movement.
So you had all those tensions that would have meant that Ava's work would have been, I suppose, undervalued or marginalized both at the time and certainly since then.
Well, absolutely.
So where do you put her in terms of a career?
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