How the Treaty caused an irrevocable split in Cumann na mBan

Crochet, cards and céilís: Civil War women behind bars

The female Civil War internees kept themselves busy behind bars - as these extraordinary artefacts from the Kilmainham Gaol Museum archives show

'The Mainstay of the Trouble': imprisonment of 'suspect women'

The women of Cumann na mBan had rejected the Treaty - and in late 1922, the Provisional Government decided to clamp down on their subversive …