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Women Freedom Fighters

"There are praises of flowers who epitomise the unconquerable spirit of Irish womanhood. Let no man dare to scorn these women and let your weeds of indifference and sleeping roses blush in everlasting shame." —Bobby Sands Clarke, Kathleen Clarke, Sister Sarah Connolly O Brien, Nora Daly, Miriam Devlin McAliskey, Bernadette  Dirrane, Bridget  Drumm, Máire Farrell, Mairead Gifford Plunkett, Grace Gonne, Maud Hayden, Josephine MacBride, Maud Gonne MacLean Milton, Nan  MacSwiney, Mary de Markievicz, Constance McAliskey, Roísín Moloney, Helena Nelson, Rosemary Nic Giolla Easpaig, Áine and Eibhlín O'Hare Letzer, Bridie Price, Marian Reid, Mary Sands-McKevitt, Bernadette  The Valiant Women of 1922-1923 Women of Cumann na mBan Women of the Russian Revolution  Women of the World  Women's Emancipation and the Socialist Movement Women's Rights — by James Connolly The militant women who, without abandoning their fidelity to duty, are yet teaching their sisters to assert their rights, are re-establishing a sane and perfect balance that makes more possible a well-ordered Irish nation. —James Connolly See Also: A Brief Essay on Guerrilla Warfare  Aleida Guevara — "Another Cuban Woman" Armagh Prison Hunger Strike Beyond The Wire — A Derry Diary British Trying to Pervert Nelson Probe Che Guevara Daughter Counts Irish as Comrades in Struggle Concern Regarding Violence Against Women in Turkey Cuban Women: Before and After the Revolution Donegal Women in the Civil War Harriet Tubman: Woman Warrior Hope in the Himalayas: Women Rebels in Nepal International Women's Day — 2000 International Women's Day — 2002 International Women's Day — 2003 — IRSCNA Statement Ireland's Oldest Woman Recalls Rising's Leaders Irish women and revolution Leila Khaled — Palestinian Freedom Fighter Leila Khaled  — Interview:  21 July 2003 A Magdalene Survivor Muslim Women's Struggle My Rifle Will Liberate Me — Excerpts From Female Recruits of Nepal's Maoist Army Republican, socialist, feminist: Connolly and the women's movement Revolution is a Woman's Work Roots of International Women's Day Why Irishwomen are Still Waiting forTheir own Independence Day Women in the FARC Guerrilla Women and Their Struggles —from Resistencia Women of Nigeria Occupy Chevron oil Facilities for Weeks Songs: Ballad of Mairéad Farrell Grace Women of Cumann na mBann Video: Video Footage: Cumann na mBan Links: Slí na mBan / The Way of Women Radical Women / Freedom Socialist Party Women In Combat: Nationalism or Patriotism Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine ferment —Karl Marx Page updated 7 Mar 2009 Women Freedom Fighters Background and logo  by Míchealín Daugherty Copyright © 2009 Ireland's OWN All Rights Reserved.