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Month: December 2018

Posted on December 13, 2018December 14, 2018 by MJCasey

Greetings to Comrade Sylvia Pankhurst from the Women Workers of Moscow – 1921

On 14 December 1918, a century ago today, women in Britain and Ireland cast their votes in government elections for the first time. But for Sylvia Pankhurst, who for years had fought for women's suffrage, parliamentary democracy as embodied in Westminster already seemed outmoded by the time Lloyd George had called this general election. Inspired…

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Yesterday at the launch I was delighted to meet Dublin local Liam Morrison, whose wife Mona Baptiste, a Trinidadian jazz singer, was the only passenger on the famous 1948 Windrush voyage to eventually settle in Ireland.
My latest exhibition “Revolutionary Routes: Ireland and the Black Atlantic” launches tonight @epicmuseumchq. Created in collaboration with @aaidnet.
In 1937, the Belfast Telegraph published an article by a Ukrainian refugee, Maroussia Edelstyn.
The Edelstyns, a Ukrainian Jewish refugee family in 1930s Belfast.
Maroussia Zokorovich was born in 1898 to a family who owned a sugar factory outside the Ukrainian city of Konotop. In the conflicts over Ukrainian territory that arose in the wake of the First World War, she performed for soldiers as a dancer. Amid the violence, she fell in love with Max Edelstyn, a Jewish Artillery Officer in the Russian White Army.
Sophie Raffalovich, born into a Jewish family in Odesa in 1860. In her twenties, Sophie became interested in Irish nationalism and wrote to a political prisoner in Galway jail. The correspondence became a courtship and Sophie eventually married the prisoner, William O’Brien.
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