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as the North of Ireland Women's Suffrage Society in 1872. Determined lobbying by the Society ensured the 1887 Act creating a new city-status municipal franchise for Belfast conferred the vote on persons rather than men. This was eleven years before women elsewhere Ireland gained the vote in local
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but had branches in other parts of the north of Ireland. Weekly meetings in Belfast discussed temperance, infant mortality, sex education, venereal disease, white slave trafficking, protective factory legislation for women and equal opportunities. During the height of the Home Rule crisis in
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1912–1913 the WSS held at least 47 open-air meetings in Belfast, and mounted dinner-hour pickets at factory gates to engage working women.
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A suffrage society, with a greater commitment to direct action, had been set up in Lisburn by
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By April 1914, Evans had won over so many from the IWSS that the society formally disbanded.
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It changed its name to the Irish Women's Suffrage Society in 1909. It was based in
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who also cooperated with Evans in the WSPU campaign.
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Index

women's suffrage
Isabella Tod
Belfast
Margaret McCoubrey
Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth Bell
Winifred Carney
James Connolly
Christabel Pankhurst
Women's Social and Political Union
Lillian Metge
Women's suffrage organizations
Timeline of women's suffrage
List of suffragists and suffragettes
ISBN
978-1-84631-635-7
"Belfast suffragettes"
the original
"'An articulate and definite cry for political freedom': the ulster suffrage movement"
doi
10.1080/09612020200200321
ISSN
0961-2025
ISBN
9781909556065
ISBN
9781781174708
"Irish Suffragettes at the time of the Home Rule Crisis"
"'An articulate and definite cry for political freedom': the ulster suffrage movement"
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