Unionist women

Ireland’s largest women’s political organisation, the Ulster Women’s Unionist Council (UWUC), reacted swiftly to the announcement of war, suspending most of its political activities and throwing itself instead into supporting the Empire in its hour of need. Having been established in 1911 to support the work of the entirely male Ulster Unionist Council, it nonetheless ... Read more

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