The Forgotten Lives of the Women of Cahir

Irish History Podcast

Fin Dwyer

History, Interviews, War Of Independence, Ireland, Norman Invasion, Vikings, Great Famine, Great Hunger, Irish History

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Women are all too often overlooked in history. The Daughters of Dun Iascaigh, written by the Cahir Womens History Group, addresses this imbalance by profiling the lives of over 20 women from this Tipperary town. The book highlights some fascinating but previously overlooked stories. In this podcast I interview three contributors Josephine O'Neill, Maurice Casey and Annette Condon who reveal intriguing stories about rebels, nuns and revolutionaries from Cahir in the last century.

If you want to find out more about the project and get a copy of the book contact jocasey09 at gmail.com.

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0:00.0	Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.
0:11.0	So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.
0:16.5	Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app.
0:30.0	I stood on the square in the middle of the night waiting to be collected and taken to a mother and baby home.
0:37.0	I collected my husband's body from the IRA under cover of darkness. I oppose conscription alongside hundreds of local women.
0:42.0	I was sent to a magdalene boundary. I watched my children taken from me. I was a woman from Care.
0:58.0	Hello and welcome to the Irish History Podcast. My name is Finn Duwara.
1:00.0	Today's episode focuses on the lives of women in one small Irish town, Care in South Tipperary.
1:06.7	Josephine O'Neill, whose words opened the show, gives you a flavor of what you can expect.
1:12.4	The podcast came about when I received a copy of a book by the Care Women's History Group
1:16.9	called The Daughters of Dunishgug, which charts the fascinating lives of over 20 ordinary women from care and the surrounding area.
1:25.1	I was really taken by the book and I'm delighted to have three of the stories told by the people
1:29.5	who wrote them on today's show.
1:31.5	The stories you will hear will cover very different women from
1:34.4	revolutionary to nuns, but they share a common experience in that they were
1:38.3	overlooked in the historical record because they were women. Indeed before we delve into these stories Josephine O'Neill, one of the women involved in the Care Women's History Group, explains this best when she talked about why the book was written.
1:52.0	The project began when I was at a lecture in
1:54.6	care, our local history society, women of our lectures and I sat there and thought
2:00.3	I will never be at a lecture on the women of care because their history is hidden.
2:06.4	So the next day I said it to a friend of mine and we decided to go look for them.
2:12.1	And we decided that we'd find them in the census of 1901 and 1911. This was our starting point and then I was
2:19.6	joined, we formed a small group, Mary O'Donnell, Rita Ryan, and Carter Falco.
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