1. L. Earner-Byrne, ‘“Aphrodite Rising from the Waves”? Women’s Voluntary Activism and the Women’s Movement in Twentieth-Century Ireland’, in E. Breitenbach and P. Thane (eds), Women and Citizenship in Britain and Ireland in the Twentieth Century: What Difference Did the Vote Make? (London: Continuum, 2010); K. Gleadle, Borderline Citizens: Women, Gender, and Political Culture in Britain 1815–1867 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 17–18.
2. Quoted in A. Heverin, The Irish Countrywomen’s Association: a History 1910–2000 (Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 2000), p. 53.
3. S. McNamara, Those Intrepid United Irishwomen: Pioneers of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association (Limerick, 1995), p. 19.
4. Ibid.
5. E. Pilkington, ‘An Irish Guild of Countrywomen’, Irish Homestead, 9 April 1910, p. 291.