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Part 2 of our podcast which examines the voter numbers behind the 1922 general election following the signing of the treaty by Michael Collins.
 
In part 1, we found out Michael Collins along with Arthur Griffith conspired to deny women the vote because they knew that women, especially young women, were ardent Republicans. The GE result would give Collins the mandate he felt he needed to go to war.
 
Why were women denied the franchise?
The numbers talk for themselves
 
 
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SOURCES Rosemary Cullen Owens Smashing Times: A History Of the Irish Suffrage Movement 1889-1922
Shannon Area History Group - Ordinary women in extraordinary times
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1922-03-02/23/
THOMAS MOHR -
THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE IRISH FREE STATE -
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44026835
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/was-1918-a-false-dawn-for-irish-women-1.3705917

On this episode of A Woman's Place we are joined by Dr Josesph Trachtman, O.D, Ph.D to talk about his work which involves treating PTSD through the eye.
Joseph Trachtman, O.D., Ph.D. is one of the approximately 60 optometrists world-wide, who has earned the status of F.C.O.V.D.-A, and one of the few in private practice with this distinction. 
Dr. Trachtman is internationally renowned for his work offering visual rehabilitation, neurofeedback for vision (biofeedback), and optometric vision therapy.
 
As well as being a pioneer in sports vision, he is the world's expert in biofeedback applications for vision problems. Based on NASA research, Dr. Trachtman invented biofeedback devices for a variety of vision problems: relaxation and reeducation of the ciliary muscle, nearsightedness, farsightedness, presbyopia, strabismus, amblyopia, nystagmus, and vision related to TBI, PTSD, and stroke. Dr. Trachtman provides personal attention to all his patients.
Dr. Trachtman has published over 70 scientific articles and written five books. A veteran himself, Dr Tractman Provides free treatment to veterans with PTSD.
 
Discover more about his work on his site: http://www.accommotrac.com/Accommotrac_Vision_Trainer/About_Me.html

Here's a bit of history they don't teach you in school folks: the majority of women were denied the franchise in 1922. We posit that this exclusion at a fundamental moment of our state meant that the Treaty side swept the 1922 General Election.
 
What we have come to uncover is that Michael Collins along with Arthur Griffith conspired to deny women the vote because they knew that women, especially young women, were ardent Republicans.
The GE result would give Collins the mandate he felt he needed to go to war.
 
Listen as we recount the moment that led up to this, frankly treasonous act, by the pro-treaty side which would eventually lead to a theocratic male-dominant patriarchy denying women the right to abortion, to work and imprisionment in the home. 
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SOURCES
Rosemary Cullen Owens Smashing Times: A History Of the Irish Suffrage Movement 1889-1922
 
Shannon Area History Group - Ordinary women in extraordinary times
 

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1922-03-02/23/

THOMAS MOHR - 
THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE IRISH FREE STATE
- 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44026835

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/was-1918-a-false-dawn-for-irish-women-1.3705917

 
Clips used:
Mary MacSweeney debated along with Michael Collins and Eamon DeValera
in the historic Anglo-Irish Treaty Debates. Her no-compromise
rebublicanism really comes across in the speech. Performed by Christina
O' Sullivan for UCC Philosoph Society. Directed by Sean Creagh and Owen
Murphy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yYLVeeU8W4

In episode 28 of A Woman's Place, Christina reads you a critical essay on the formula that makes up disaster. Looking at the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and contributing vulnerabilities of the society and how economic inequality plays a major role in creating 'disaster'. She discusses disaster as an outcome rather than an event and outlines lessons learned that we can apply to our own communities and personal lives.
 
In the wake of the IPCC report on Climate Change, if we are to avert disasters today and in the future, we first need to understand how they are created.
 
 

We chatted about the emergence of neoliberalism and why it's hard to define. We go through a basic overview of the ideology and how it affects out lives-socially and economically- and it's emergence under Thatcher & Reagan aka Season 2 of The Crown
 
We talk about how globalism and neoliberalism is colonialism rebranded. 
 
We think it's especially important that everyone knows these terms and why everything costs an arm and a leg so that we can confidently talk and strategise against it.
 
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In this episode, we talk about the founding of American "democracy", Irish partition and how supremacists states stack the deck against groups seen as neither fully a citizen nor human. In America it was black people, in Ireland it was Catholics.
We give an overview of Gerrymandering and how it works, keeping minority governments in power even when their opponents have more votes!