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This is the first dedicated biography of the extraordinary Irish woman, Eva Gore-Booth. Gore-Booth rejected her aristocratic heritage choosing to live and work amongst the poorest classes in industrial Manchester. Her work on behalf of barmaids, circus acrobats, flower sellers and pit-brow lasses is traced in this book. During one impressive campaign Gore-Booth orchestrated the defeat of Winston Churchill. Gore-Booth published volumes of poetry, philosophical prose and plays, becoming a respected and prolific author of her time and part of W.B. Yeats' literary circle. The story of Gore-Booth's.

Women social reformers --- Social reformers --- Women authors, Irish --- Authors, Irish --- Gore-Booth, Eva, --- Ireland --- History --- Women social reformers - Ireland - Biography --- Social reformers - Ireland - Biography --- Women authors, Irish - 20th century - Biography --- Authors, Irish - Biography --- Gore-Booth, Eva, - 1870-1926 --- Ireland - History - 1837-1901 - Biography --- Ireland - History - 20th century - Biography --- Eva Gore- Booth. --- Great War. --- Irish independence. --- Irish woman. --- Roger Casement. --- W.B. Yeats. --- Winston Churchill. --- aristocratic heritage. --- gender equality. --- industrial Manchester. --- militant pacifism. --- occult beliefs. --- sexual equality. --- spiritualism.

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Tracing the campaign for marriage equality, this book highlights how this movement and the related referendum result have propelled Ireland from a country perceived as one repressed and controlled by the Catholic church to a country that is now admired as a leader in equality of human rights.

Same-sex marriage --- Law and legislation. --- Ireland. --- Civil partnerships. --- Constitution. --- Equality. --- Gay rights. --- Homosexuality. --- Marriage. --- Politics. --- Referendum. --- Religion.

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The annual Lesbian Lives conference has been held in University College Dublin since 1993. The success of the conference held in 2006 entitled 'Historicising the Lesbian' inspired this collection of essays. From the dozens of papers delivered, the chapters chosen for inclusion in this volume cover a wide period in history from the medieval to the very modern, a huge range of subject areas and diverse historical interests. The many subjects areas dealt with will allow a widening of our knowle...

Lesbianism --- Women --- History --- Sexual behavior