Ep 31: No Republic for Young Women- Why Michael Collins denied women the franchise in 1922

Part 2 of our podcast which examines the voter numbers behind the 1922 general election following the signing of the treaty by Michael Collins.

 

In part 1, we found out Michael Collins along with Arthur Griffith conspired to deny women the vote because they knew that women, especially young women, were ardent Republicans. The GE result would give Collins the mandate he felt he needed to go to war.

 

Why were women denied the franchise?

The numbers talk for themselves

 

 

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SOURCES Rosemary Cullen Owens Smashing Times: A History Of the Irish Suffrage Movement 1889-1922

Shannon Area History Group - Ordinary women in extraordinary times

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1922-03-02/23/

THOMAS MOHR -

THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE IRISH FREE STATE -

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44026835

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/was-1918-a-false-dawn-for-irish-women-1.3705917