Lecturer will hold talk in Louth County Library as part of Decade of Centenaries Programme

Oueen's University lecturer Dr Margaret Ward will give a talk as part of the Louth County Council Decade of Centenaries Programme 2023.

The talk ‘A cold house for women' gender and the early years of the Northern Ireland state will take place in dundalk Library on Friday November 3rd at 3pm.

Dr Margaret is a well known feminist historian, whose many publications include Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: suffragette and Sinn Féiner, her memoirs and political writings and Fearless Woman: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, feminism and the Irish Revolution.

Her pioneering book Unmanageable Revolutionaries, women and Irish Nationalism, first published in 1983, was published in a revised and updated edition by Arlen House in 2021.

Margaret is currently researching the afterlives of Northern women who were active in the republican movement in the 1920s.

No booking for the event required.

This talk will be available to view live on Louth Library Service Crowdcast channel: https://www.crowdcast.io/@louth-library-service