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Women Rising Panel One: The Role of Irish Women in the 1916 Rising

Professors Joe Lee gives an overview of the Rising and the Irish situation at the turn of the century, Professor Lucy McDiarmid presents eyewitness accounts and stories of women involved with the Rising, and Karen Steele examines the role of women in Irish life in the years surrounding the Rising.