By Deirdre Raftery, Catriona Delaney, and Catherine Nowlan-Roebuck
Published in History of Education, January 2025.
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Abstract

This article discusses how women teachers experienced the Irish revolutionary period during the time of experience, rather than in the light of what came afterwards. It argues that, while new scholarship generally succeeded in writing women into the historical narrative of the revolutionary period, it failed to explore the experiences of women teachers. The article draws on several archival collections, to present an account of emotions of protest amongst women teachers, education faculty and student teachers at Carysfort College Dublin. It also notes how convents and convent school buildings were sometimes used as “safe houses” and presents archival evidence to support this finding.