{"id":2393,"date":"2014-03-08T15:44:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T15:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xl1916apps.mucampus.ie\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2018-04-10T13:39:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T13:39:57","slug":"international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/international-womens-day","title":{"rendered":"International Women&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>To mark the International Women&#8217;s Day we would like to encourage you to find out more about women who\u00a0played key and courageous role in 1916 Rising. Through the Letters 1916 we want also to give a recognition for some of the lesser known or unknown women from that time.\u00a0There are many letters written by women in the Letters of 1916 online archive &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/\">click here<\/a> to read, transcribe and unlock hidden stories in the letters from 1916.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected letters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/items\/show\/743\">Letter from Marie Martin to her mother, Mary Martin, 9 April 1916<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/items\/show\/844\">Letter from May Fay to James Finn 14 April, 1916<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/items\/show\/694\">Letter from Mary McEvoy to Agnes Sweetman, 13 May 1916<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/items\/show\/725\">Letter from Mary Anne Curley, 14 February 1916<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/items\/show\/522\">Letter from Ella Young to Alice Stopford Green, 6 August 1916<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/items\/show\/496\">Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 1916<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/items\/show\/94\">Letter from Lilly to &#8216;Tweety&#8217; (Lady Clonbrock), 17 July 1916<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/items\/show\/147\">Letter from Jane Coffey to her son Diarmid Coffey, 17 October 1916<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><em style=\"line-height: 1.4em;\">The links below will bring you to a few articles, a video and a radio documentary you might find interesting:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To read:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.easter1916.ie\/index.php\/people\/women\/\">Women of the Rising<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labour.ie\/download\/pdf\/seven_women_of_the_labour_movement1916.pdf\">Seven Women\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.workersliberty.org\/story\/2005\/11\/17\/women-irish-nationalist-movement-1900-1916\">Women in the Irish nationalist movement 1900-1916<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To watch:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FiZJ2C8EwSA\">Women in the 1916 Rising<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To listen:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/radio1\/doconone\/radio-documentary-women-revolution-easter-rising-1916.html?utm_source=hootsuite&amp;utm_campaign=hootsuite\">Women of the Revolution<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the International Women&#8217;s Day we would like to encourage you to find out more about women who\u00a0played key and courageous role in 1916 Rising. Through the Letters 1916 we want also to give a recognition for some of <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/international-womens-day\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  International Women&#8217;s Day<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[202,220,229,211],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5894,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions\/5894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}