Cumman na mBan's Military Pensions and Service Medals Campaign: A Fight for Equality, 1924-1958

卡曼·纳·姆班的军事养老金和服役奖章运动：争取平等的斗争，1924 年至 1958 年

• 批准号: 2635806
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Queen's University Belfast
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2635806
• 关键词: Cumman; na; mBan; Military; Pensions

My research focuses on the Irishwomen's paramilitary group, Cumann na mBan, and its campaign for state-awarded military pensions and service medals between 1924 and 1958. Exploring ways in which self-perception and notions of equality influenced Cumann na mBan's decision to campaign, my dissertation will analyse why its members resolved to campaign for the part they played in the Irish Revolution (1916-1923). Using the recently released Military Service Pensions Collection (MSPC), my thesis will use pension applications, along with government debates, documents, and personal papers, to understand why Cumann na mBan was initially excluded from receiving compensation and recognition, why compensation and recognition was so important to Cumann na mBan, and the organization's decision to fight for inclusion in the Irish Free State's pensions and service medals scheme. I will also explore how Cumann na mBan's campaign challenged notions of Irish nationalism, military traditions, and the new Free State itself. Did gender play into Cumann na mBan's initial exclusion? Or was Cumann na mBan's exclusion from the legislation in 1924 for more practical reasons? What role did gender, identity, and equality play in Cumann na mBan's decision to campaign? Was monetary compensation more important for some members than service recognition? Why did the Fianna Fáil government include women in the pensions and service medals scheme in the early 1930s? Was Cumann na mBan a threat to the Fianna Fáil government and thus needed to be placated? How did Cumann na mBan's campaign disrupt the government's ideas regarding women's relationship to nationalism, military service, and to the state itself? Literature focused on the post-conflict experiences of female veterans is scarce. There are even less studies on the experiences of female veterans after a guerrilla conflict. Lack of scholarship on the post-conflict life of guerrilla female veterans has been primarily due to a lack of source material. However, the MSPC provides the resources needed to conduct research concerning female veterans' post-conflict experiences. Thus, although the MSPC has only been used to track Cumann na mBan's activities between the years of 1916 and 1923, the collection has the potential to shed light on Cumann na mBan's post-revolution experiences. My dissertation will therefore become one of the first major studies to use the MSPC to focus on the post-revolution experiences of Cumann na mBan. It will occupy a space in the historiography of the Irish Revolution, the Free State, and Irish women's history that has yet to be filled. Further, a particularly relevant study to be conducted during the decade of Irish centenaries, my research will not only enhance scholarship's knowledge concerning female veterans' post-conflict experiences in Ireland. While the MSPC is an extremely unique collection and unparalleled internationally, by examining the experiences of female veterans after the Irish Revolution, I intend to structure my thesis so it will lend to a wider understanding of state's treatment of female veterans and serve as a case study for similar studies in other locations.

我的研究重点是爱尔兰妇女准军事组织Cumann na mban，以及它在1924年至1958年期间为争取国家授予的军队养老金和服役奖章而发起的运动。探索自我认知和平等观念如何影响卡曼·纳姆班的竞选决定，我的论文将分析为什么其成员决心为他们在爱尔兰革命(1916-1923)中所扮演的角色而竞选。使用最近发布的兵役养老金收藏(MSPC)，我的论文将使用养老金申请，以及政府辩论、文件和个人文件，以了解为什么Cumann na mban最初被排除在获得补偿和认可之外，为什么补偿和认可对Cumann na mban如此重要，以及该组织决定争取纳入爱尔兰自由州的养老金和服役奖章计划。我还将探讨卡曼·纳姆班的竞选活动如何挑战爱尔兰民族主义、军事传统和新的自由国家本身的观念。性别在卡曼·纳姆班最初被排除在外的过程中起到了作用吗？或者是出于更实际的原因，卡曼·纳姆班在1924年被排除在立法之外？性别、身份认同和平等在卡曼·纳姆班的竞选决定中扮演了什么角色？对于一些成员来说，金钱补偿比服务认可更重要吗？为什么共和党政府在20世纪30年代初将女性纳入养老金和服役奖章计划？库曼·纳姆班是对共和党政府的威胁，因此需要安抚吗？卡曼·纳姆班的竞选活动如何打乱了政府关于女性与民族主义、服兵役以及与国家本身的关系的想法？关注女性退伍军人冲突后经历的文献很少。关于女退伍军人在游击冲突后的经历的研究就更少了。缺乏关于游击队女退伍军人冲突后生活的学术研究，主要是因为缺乏原始材料。然而，MSPC提供了开展关于女性退伍军人冲突后经历的研究所需的资源。因此，尽管MSPC只被用来追踪卡曼·纳姆班在1916年至1923年之间的活动，但该收藏有可能揭示卡曼·纳姆班在革命后的经历。因此，我的论文将成为第一批使用MSPC来关注卡曼·纳姆班革命后经历的主要研究之一。它将在爱尔兰革命、自由国家和爱尔兰妇女历史的史学中占据一个尚未填补的空间。此外，作为将在爱尔兰百年纪念活动期间进行的一项特别相关的研究，我的研究不仅将增进学术界对女性退伍军人在爱尔兰冲突后经历的了解。虽然MSPC是一个极其独特的集合，在国际上是无与伦比的，但通过考察爱尔兰革命后女性退伍军人的经历，我打算构建我的论文，以便有助于更广泛地了解国家对待女性退伍军人的方式，并为其他地方的类似研究提供案例研究。