The Women of Ireland Project
How Masculinity Shaped Modern Irish Identity
Aug 2, 202656 minS0
<p>What have anxieties about Irish men’s masculinity and their masculine strength got to do with how Irish national identity was constructed and created in the 19th and 20th century? And how did that history shape the lives of women in the post-independence Irish Free State of the 20th century?</p><p>I will admit, that when I began, many years ago, researching the social forces which had impacted women in recent Irish history, the role of something as ‘abstract’ as ideals of masculinity was not something I had ever thought about. </p><p>But once you start to see th...
