Revolution and Revelation: A Study of the Religiopolitical Lives and Legacies of Two Irish Republican Friends, Maud Gonne and Ella Young
Two Irish republican women of the revolutionary period, Maud Gonne (1866-1953) and Ella Young (1867-1956), were lifelong friends, artists, feminists, and activists. Gonne was an adept community organiser, launching creative political protests in Dublin, visiting families experiencing eviction to dra...
| Published in: | Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions
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| Further subjects: | B
Easter Rising
B Inghinidhe na hÉireann B Nationalism B Transdisciplinary B Ireland B Western Esotericism B Golden Dawn B Republicanism |
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| Summary: | Two Irish republican women of the revolutionary period, Maud Gonne (1866-1953) and Ella Young (1867-1956), were lifelong friends, artists, feminists, and activists. Gonne was an adept community organiser, launching creative political protests in Dublin, visiting families experiencing eviction to draw international press attention to the plight of the rural poor, advocating for political prisoners, and organising fellow Dubliners in support of striking workers and hungry schoolchildren. Young travelled throughout Ireland, immersing herself in myth, folklore, and the Irish landscape. She taught children, created new religious organisations, and authored numerous books. Gonne was declared Ireland’s Joan of Arc, and, though she converted to Catholicism in 1903, her religion was a syncretic mix of Catholicism and Western esotericism. Friends described Young as a Druidess and she listed her religion in the 1911 census as Pagan. This transdisciplinary, micro-historical study centres the Gonne-Young friendship and explores the unique relationship between revolution and revelation in their lives and legacies. It illuminates how Gonne and Young adapted characteristics from Western esotericism and Irish myth and folklore to fight what their compatriot Constance Markievicz identified as the ‘double battle’ facing Irish women: the struggle against patriarchy and the British Empire. |
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| ISSN: | 2009-7409 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions
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