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dc.contributor.advisorShea, Margoen_US
dc.contributor.authorReilly, Kathleen
dc.creatorReilly, Kathleenen_US
dc.date2021-11-24T14:05:38.000en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-29T11:32:43Z
dc.date.available2021-11-29T11:32:43Z
dc.date.issued2014-05-17en_US
dc.date.submitted2014-07-14T08:47:07-07:00en_US
dc.identifierhonors_theses/22en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13013/697en_US
dc.description.abstractThe modern nationalist movement (1916-1936) presented a contradiction for Irish women. On the one hand, they were being called to perform their responsibilities as citizens by extending their patriotism outside the home and taking a more active role in the fate of their country. On the other, Irish nationalism relied heavily on tradition; women were generally seen as the keepers of that tradition. Nationalist women struggled to respond to the competing responsibilities of their traditional domestic role and the emerging roles as citizens in a new nation. This paper examines Kathleen Clarke as a case study in how nationalist Irishwomen balanced their responsibilities as citizens in the new nation with their traditional roles as wives and mothers. Kathleen Clarke was the wife of one of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising and the sister of another. She was very involved in the nationalist movement and in Irish politics. After the Rising, she was left as a single mother of three small boys while also managing a fund for the dependents of imprisoned rebels. She eventually became a senator and then the first female Lord Mayor of Dublin. In her struggles to balance responsibilities in both the domestic and public spheres of her life, Kathleen Clarke embodied the ways that the new nation simultaneously created and restricted personal, cultural and political opportunities for women in Ireland after independence.en_US
dc.titleKathleen Clarke: Connecting the Competing Definitions of Women's Identity in Irish Nationalismen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.legacy.pubstatuspublisheden_US
dc.description.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.date.displayMay 17, 2014en_US
dc.type.degreeBachelor of Arts (BA)en_US
dc.legacy.pubtitleHonors Thesesen_US
dc.legacy.identifierhttps://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1029&context=honors_theses&unstamped=1en_US
dc.legacy.identifieritemhttps://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/honors_theses/22en_US
dc.subject.keywordKathleen Clarkeen_US
dc.subject.keywordIrelanden_US
dc.subject.keywordIrishen_US
dc.subject.keywordnationalismen_US
dc.subject.keywordnationalisten_US
dc.subject.keywordwomanen_US
dc.subject.keywordwomenen_US
dc.subject.keywordidentityen_US
dc.subject.keywordindependenceen_US


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