What happened when Éamon de Valera toured America during the start of the War of Independence

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When the women of Ireland demanded de Valera's attention

In 1936 a group of women's organisations wrote to Éamon de Valera to voice their concerns about women's role in the new constitution. Bláithin Ni Chathain, producer and archive researcher of The Records Show, tells what happened next
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