Advanced search
Publication Cover
Irish Studies Review Volume 32, 2024 - Issue 2
Submit an article Journal homepage
162
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Unfeminine women and angry men: the Irish Post Office in 1902–1918

Jin Kyung JangFaculty of History, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 206-224 | Published online: 08 Apr 2024

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • a. Parliamentary Debates and Reports
  • HC Deb 12 February 1897, Vol. 46, Cc. 319–368.
  • HC Deb 23 June 1910, vol. 18, cc. 507–75.
  • Evidence Submitted to the Select Committee by the Association of Irish Post Office Clerks, 1912, BPMA, Post 115/258.
  • First Report of Standing Committee on Boy Labour in the Post Office Together with Instructions Issued by the Postmaster General in Connection Therewith, 1911.
  • Holt Committee Report, BPMA, Post 115/259.
  • Forty-Seventh Report of the Postmaster General, 1901.
  • Forty-Ninth Report of the Postmaster General on the Post Office, 1903.
  • Report of the Postmaster General on the Post Office, 1913–14.
  • Report of the Postmaster General on the Post Office, 1915–16.
  • Scudamore, Frank. 1871. “Report on the Re-Organisation of Telegraph System of the United Kingdom.” 19th Century House of Commons Sessional Papers, Vol. XXXVII, 703.
  • b. Journals, Guidebook of the Women’s Establishment Bureau in Dublin and Civil Servant’s Writing
  • Association Notes (Official Organ of the APOWC), BPMA, Post 115/1149 – 115/1152.
  • Dual Workers Guardian (Official Organ of the Dual Workers’ Association), BPMA, Post 115/249 – 115/255.
  • The Irish Postal & Telegraph Guardian (Official Organ of the AIPOC), BPMA, Post 115/265 – 115/266.
  • Bradshaw, Myrrha, ed. Open Doors for Irishwomen: A Guide to the Professions Open to Educated Women in Ireland. Dublin: Irish Bureau for the Employment of Women, 1907.
  • Martindale, Hilda. Women Servants of the State, 1870–1938: A History of Women in the Civil Service. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1938.

Secondary sources

  • Clinton, Alan. Post Office Workers: A Trade Union and Social History. London: Allen & Unwin, 1984.
  • Cohn, Samuel. The Process of Occupational Sex-Typing: The Feminization of Clerical Labour in Great Britain. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985.
  • Crowley, Mark. “Inequality and Value Reconsidered: The Employment of Post Office Women, 191–1922.” Business History 58, no. 7 (2016): 985–1007. doi:10.1080/00076791.2016.1155556.
  • Cullen, Mary, ed. Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish Women in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Dublin: Women’s Education Bureau, 1987.
  • Cullen-Owens, Rosemary. “Women and Work.” Chap. 9 in A Social History of Women in Ireland, 1870–1970. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2005.
  • Daly, Mary. “The Formation of an Irish Nationalist Elite? Recruitment to the Irish Civil Service in the Decades Prior to Independence, 1870–1920.” Paedagogica Historica 30, no. 1 (2006): 291–301. doi:10.1080/0030923940300112.
  • Ferguson, Stephen. The Post Office in Ireland: An Illustrated History. Newbridge: Irish Academic Press, 2016.
  • Foley, Deirdre. “‘Their Proper Place’: Women, Work and the Marriage Bar in Independent Ireland, C. 1924–1973.” Social History 46, no. 1 (2022): 60–84. doi:10.1080/03071022.2022.2009692.
  • Gallagher, Niamh. “Irish Women and War-Relief on the Home Front.” Chap. 3 in Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History, 31–59. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
  • Glew, Helen. Gender, Rhetoric and Regulation: Women’s Work in the Civil Service and the London County Council, 1900–55. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.
  • Horne, John, ed. Our War: Ireland and the Great War. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2012.
  • Humphreys, Betty Vance. Clerical Unions in the Civil Service. Oxford: Blackwel & Mott, 1958.
  • McIntosh, Gillian, and Diane Urquhart. Irish Women at War: The Twentieth Century. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2010.
  • O’Connor, Anne V. “The Revolution in Girls’ Secondary Education in Ireland 1860–1910.” In Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish Women in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Mary Cullen, 31–54. Dublin: Women’s Education Bureau, 1987.
  • O’Connor, Anne V., and Susan M. Parkes. Gladly Learn and Gladly Teach: Alexandra College and School, 1866–1966. Tallaght: Blackwater, 1984.
  • O’Riordan, Maeve. “Titled Women and Voluntary War Work in Ireland During the First World War: A Case Study of Ethel, Lady Inchiquin.” Women’s History Review 27, no. 3 (2018): 360–378. doi:10.1080/09612025.2016.1221286.
  • Parkes, Susan M. A Danger to the Men: A History of Women in Trinity College Dublin 1904–2004. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2004.
  • Pašeta, Senia “‘Waging War on the Streets’: The Irish Women Patrol, 1914–22.” Irish Historical Studies 39, no. 154 (2014): 250–271. doi:10.1017/S0021121400019088.
  • Raftery, Deirdre, and Susan M. Parkes. Female Education in Ireland, 1700–1900: Minerva or Madonna. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2007.
  • Reid, Alastair J. United We Stand: A History of Britain’s Trade Unions. London: Penguin, 2005.
  • Reilly, Eileen. “Women and Voluntary War Work.” In Ireland and the Great War: A War to Unite Us All?. edited by Gregory Adrian and Senia Pašeta, 49–72. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002.
  • Stephen, Leslie. Life of Henry Fawcett. London: Smith, Elder, 1885.
  • Sutherland, Gillian, ed. Studies in the Growth of Nineteenth-Century Government. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972.
  • Takayanagi, Mari. “Sacred Year or Broken Reed? The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919.” Women’s History Review 29, no. 4 (2020): 563–582. doi:10.1080/09612025.2019.1702782.
  • Thom, Deborah. “Women, War Work and the State in Ireland, 1914–1918.” Women’s History Review 27, no. 3 (2018): 450–467. doi:10.1080/09612025.2016.1221291.
  • Walsh, Fionnuala. “‘We Work with Shells All Day and Night’: Irish Female Munitions Workers During the First World War.” Saothar 42 (2017): 19–30.
  • Walsh, Fionnuala. Irish Women and the Great War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
  • Zimmeck, Meta. “Jobs for the Girls: The Expansion of Clerical Work for Women, 1850–1914.” In Unequal Opportunities: Women’s Employment in England, 1800–1918, edited by Angela John, 153–177. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
  • Zimmeck, Meta. “‘Get Out and Get Under’: The Impact of Demobilisation on the Civil Service, 1918–32.” In The White-Blouse Revolution: Female Office Workers Since 1870, edited by Anderson Gregory, 88–120. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988.
  • Zimmeck, Meta. “The New Woman in the Machinery of Government: A Spanner in the Works?” In Government and Expertise in Britain, 1815–1919: Specialist, Administrators and Professionals, edited by R. Macleod, 185–202. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.