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Cop. : DFV, 1988

(source : CASB : http://www.casdb.org/catalogue/fiche2.php?id=515&row=3) ; "Mother Ireland" explores the image of Ireland as a woman in nationalist culture and how, due to reasons of political censorship (Ireland's political situation couldn't be discussed), Ireland was personified as a woman -- whose allies had to come from France or Spain to help her fight. She was also portrayed an old woman, who had lost one of her four green fields, and her sons had to fight for her. So there were two aspects of it. One aspect was to explore the development of Ireland as a woman in nationalist culture, particularly as calling on her sons to fight for her. And then the other aspect was the reality of the women who fought for Mother Ireland, which then brought in discussions around feminism and Republicanism -- because I thought the same debates were still going on in the 80s as were going on at the end of the last century, around the suffragette issue, about feminism and nationalism "(source : http://www.tallgirlshorts.net/marymary/anne.html)