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Votaí do Mhná: Votes for Women
Votaí do Mhná: Votes for Women
The story of how Irishwomen obtained the vote is a story of organisation and bravery in the face of ignorance, indifference and hostility. In the decade of political anniversaries in Ireland, a gendered perspective provides a very different understanding of Home Rule, World War I and the Irish revolutionary period.
Every main political party in Ireland and Britain opposed votes for women in the lead up to WWI – women were barred from voting in Westminster, and were also going to barred in any Dublin, or Belfast based parliament.
It was left to women themselves, with the assistance of a minority of radical socialist and republican men, to actively work to secure the vote that was finally achieved for women over 30 in 1918, in a much changed country following the upheaval of WWI and the 1916 rising.
Producer: Deaglán Ó Mocháin
Director: Keith O’Grady
Camera: Áine O’Meara & Keith O’Grady
Editor: Sarah Mahon
Is scéal eagraíochta agus crógachta é an chaoi a bhfuair mná na hÉireann an vóta in aghaidh aineolais, neamhshuime agus
naimhdeas. Sna deich mbliana de chomóradh polaitíochta in Éirinn, cuireann peirspictíocht inscne tuiscint an-difriúil ar Rialtas
Dúchais, ar an gCéad Chogadh Domhanda agus ar thréimhse réabhlóideach na hÉireann.
Roimh an chéad chogadh domhanda, bhí gach mórpháirtí polaitiúil, in Éirinn agus sa Bhreatain, in éadan vótaí do mhná -
bhí cosc orthu vóta a chaitheamh i Westminster, agus bheadh cosc orthu i bparliamint Átha Cliath nó Bhéal Feirste fosta.
Bhí sé faghta do mhná féin, in éineacht le mionlach fear radacach, sóisialach agus poblachtach gníomhú go dian chun an
vóta a fháil, rud a tharla do mhná a bhí thar 30 in 1918, i dtír a d’athraigh go suntasach i ndiaidh shuaitheadh an Chéad
Chogaidh Dhomhanda agus Éiri Amach 1916.
Léiritheoir: Deaglán Ó Mocháin
Stiúrthóir: Keith O’Grady
Ceamara: Áine O’Meara & Keith O’Grady
Eagarthóir: Sarah Mahon