Women and the Constitution of Ireland
Words: 718 Pages: 2 4848The above article was written into the constitution in 1937, when Eamon De Valera was in power. The above article is a representation of De Valera’s attitude towards women. De Valera the primary architect of the Constitution claimed that “everyone knows there is little chance of having a home … if there is no woman in it, the woman is really the home-maker”. A meeting between De Valera and protesters in 1937 was arranged after feminist protesters wrote letters to […]