200 in 2025 - BIS Lecture Series featuring Irish Historian Dr. Susan Brown "IRISH WOMEN AND THE FAMILY AND THE IRISH CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM DEBATE IN IRELAND"
Wed, August 13, 2025, 7:00 PM (AST)
About this event
As part of the 200-Year Anniversary celbration of the Benevolent Irish Society in 2025, the Society is proud to feature at the Irish Hall a very select group of local and international speakers on Irish subjects. There are 8 lectures in total in the period of August 1 - August 16 and the range of topics is expected to be thoroughly thought provoking.
The lectures are free but we are asking for sign-up so that we can predict refreshment numbers.
“A Woman’s Place is in the Home? Women, Nationalism and the Irish Constitution.”
Ireland’s 1937 constitution emphasized the essential value of women’s “duties in the home.” In light of the recent 2024 referendum proposal to revise this language, this talk will explore the longer history of expectations of women’s roles as Irish citizens that were debated in the era of revolutionary Ireland and its aftermath.