Invisible Army from Small Behaviours by Kate O'Callaghan

Countess Markievicz said how proud she was 'of the girls who stood in the gap of danger during a time of stress and war'. Women were the invisible army of the Irish revolutionary movement and when the conflict was over they were the ones who lost the most in the new Irish State.
Largely written out of history, women were more often than not referred to as stereotypes not characters in their own right - always wives, mothers, daughters, mistresses - sexualised and fantasised, and only ever making up 0.5% of all recorded history. In a story largely told by men, women need to be written back into consciousness through collective memory. Deeds must be told and written as much as they are lived, instead of intimate histories that die when we do, forgotten milestones lived and dissolved on a final breath, as living keepers of lore and memory only to succumb to the instance of death…..
The daring ones
The silent ones
The nameless ones
The brave to come

• 1916 Rising
• Adult Contemporary
• Alt. Folk
• Alternative
• Classical Strings
• Donegal Camerata
• Folk
• Markievicz
• Singer-songwriter
• War of Independence
• Women of History
• Ireland