Forgetting and Remembering - Uncovering Women’s Histories at Richmond Barracks: A Public History Project

Abstract

Richmond Barracks was, in 2015, designated

Public History, Invisibility, and Women in the Republic of Ireland

“…As all seventy-seven women were detained in Richmond Barracks either en route to or from other prisons, the authors felt it was appropriate to use this story as a lens through which to commemorate the wider involvement and experience of women in the Easter Rising. 85 The book was launched at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham on March 8, 2016, to mark International Women's Day. The project also involved an artistic element through the making of a quilt.…”

"Permanent Reminders": Digital Archives and the Irish Commemorative Impulse

“…79 For example, McAuliffe and Gillis's community research project on the seventy-seven women detained at Richmond Barracks after the Rising made clear that Irish women have been building links between commemoration, feminist heritage, and citizenship, and that this practice has been sparked and supported by archives. 80 Another powerful example of these archival resonances is the mobilization of the heritage of 1916 by abortion-rights activists in their 2016 "March for Choice," which demanded a repeal of the Eighth Amendment that effectively banned abortion in most cases. Women revolutionaries were mobilized in the campaign, traversing temporalities of feminism.…”