Sir,—In her interesting article on ‘Women and war in Ireland, 1914–18’ (HI 22.4, July/Aug. 2014) Senia Pasˇeta notes that ‘optimism about post-war prospects for women’ was expressed ‘as early as 1915’ by Edith Somerville. Even earlier, in October 1914, Mary Hayden, Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD, addressed the Irish Women’s Franchise League on ... Read more
