This is the first dedicated biography of the extraordinary Irish woman, Eva Gore-Booth. Gore-Booth rejected her aristocratic heritage choosing to live and work amongst the poorest classes in industrial Manchester. Her work on behalf of barmaids, circus acrobats, flower sellers and pit-brow lasses is traced in this book. During one impressive campaign Gore-Booth orchestrated the defeat of Winston Churchill.
Gore-Booth published volumes of poetry, philosophical prose and plays, becoming a respected and prolific author of her time and part of W.B. Yeats’ literary circle. The story of Gore-Booth’s life is captivating. Her close bond with her sister, an iconic Irish nationalist, provides a new insight into Countess Markievicz’s personal life.
Gore-Booth’s life story vividly traces her experiences of issues such as militant pacifism during the Great War, the case for the reprieve of Roger Casement’s death sentence, sexual equality in the workplace and the struggle for Irish independence.
Table of Content
Introducing the Gore-Booth family
1 Life in the big house: childhood and Lissadell
2 A pair of oddities: meeting Esther Roper
3 The birth of a rebel: social reform in Manchester
4 Sadder and wiser women: Lancashire trade unions
5 Women who kick, shriek, bite and spit: suffragists and suffragettes
6 Defending barmaids: legislative proposals and Winston Churchill
7 World War One: from trade unionism to peace movements
8 Conscientious objectors and revolution: world war and an Irish rebellion
9 Roger Casement and the aftermath of the Easter Rising
10 Prison reform and military conscription in Ireland
11 Radical sexual politics and post-war religion
12 Final years
Afterword
Bibliography of Archival Sources
Major publications by Eva Gore-Booth
Notes
Index
About the author
Sonja Tiernan is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Liverpool Hope University
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