ABSTRACT

Through the lens of her jail journal and published works such as Tragedies of Kerry (1924) and The Irish Republic (1937), this article examines the manner in which Dorothy Macardle encoded her attitude to the Treaty split and civil war in constructions of masculinities. Male behaviour towards women was a signifier of the integrity or otherwise of political stance on the issue of the 1921 Treaty. Soldiers and officials of the Irish Free State were guilty of moral failure in their willingness to sanction violence against republican women in the civil war sites of incarceration and by acting in a similarly repressive manner as the British had previously acted against the Irish. In her writing, Macardle constructed a chronicle of the female prison experience during the civil war that marked the Free State official and solider as “other” in his boorishness to the courtly, dignified republican male.

摘要

通过她的监狱日记的镜头和出版的作品，如《克里的悲剧》（1924年）和《爱尔兰共和国》（1937），本文考察了多萝西·马卡德勒（Dorothy Macardle）用何种方式表达了她对《条约》分裂和内战在男性气概中的内战的态度。男性对妇女的行为标志着在《 1921年条约》问题上的正直或其他政治立场。爱尔兰自由国的士兵和官员因在内战的监禁地点制裁共和党妇女的暴力行为而道德上的失败，并采取了与英国先前对爱尔兰的行动类似的镇​​压方式，因此犯了罪。Macardle在她的著作中构建了内战期间女性监狱经历的编年史，这标志着自由州官员和士兵对野蛮，有礼貌的共和党男性的傲慢，将其标记为“其他”。