Petticoat Revolutionaries: Irish American Women and the Ladies' Land League

2017·1.5 MB·English

by  UMass Lowell Center for Irish Partnerships

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ELY JANIS
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY
MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017
5:30 PM
UMASS LOWELL
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Petticoat Revolutionaries:
Irish American Women and the
Ladies' Land League
Janis win explore the activities of the thousands of Irish American women
in the United States who joined the Ladies' Land League in the 1880s.
Through their participation in the Ladies' Land League, Irish-American
women carved out a new public role and voice within the previously
male-dominated realm of Irish-American nationalism and public life.
Ely Janis is Associate Professor of History at the Massachusetts CoUege of
Liberal Arts (MCLA), where he teaches courses on nineteenth and
twentieth century American history. The University of Wisconsin Press
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published his book, A Greater Ireland: The Land League and Transatlantic
Nationalism in Gilded Age America, in 2015.
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