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Irish republican women in Australia: Kathleen Barry and Linda Kearns's tour in 1924–5

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2019

Dianne Hall
Dianne Hall*
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*College of Arts and Education, Victoria University, Australia, Dianne.hall@vu.edu.au
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Abstract

The 1924–5 fundraising tour in Australia by republican activists, Kathleen Barry and Linda Kearns, although successful, has received little attention from historians, more focused on the controversial tour of Fr Michael O'Flanagan and J. J. O'Kelly the previous year. While O'Flanagan and O'Kelly's tour ended with their deportation, Barry and Kearns successfully navigated the different agendas of Irish-Australian political and social groups to organise speaking engagements and raise considerable funds for the Irish Republican Prisoners’ Dependants' Fund. The women were experienced republican activists, however on their Australian tour they placed themselves firmly in traditional female patriotic roles, as nurturers and supporters of men fighting for Irish freedom. This article analyses their strategic use of gendered expectations to allay suspicions about their political agenda to successfully raise money and negotiate with political and ecclesiastical leaders.

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Irish Historical Studies , Volume 43 , Issue 163 , May 2019 , pp. 73 - 93
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Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 2019 

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50 De Valera to P. Ruttledge, Dec. 1923 (U.C.D.A., Mulcahy papers, P7/B/140), cited in Hopkinson, Green against green, p. 261.

51 Notice of I.R.P.D.F. executive meeting addressed to Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, 25 Apr. 1924; the typed notice was signed by Kathleen Barry in her role as secretary and was endorsed by hand ‘Very special business to be decided’ (N.L.I., Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington papers, MS 41,178/35).

52 Jim Moloney was in prison between March 1923 and July 1924. For the hunger strikes generally, see Hopkinson, Green against green, pp 268–71.

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54 See, for example, Barry's speeches as reported in Catholic Press, 11 Jan. 1924.

55 P. J. Ruttledge to Kathleen Barry, 11 July 1924 (U.C.D.A., Kathleen Barry Moloney papers, P94/46).

56 Kathleen Barry to Jim Moloney, 8 July 1924 (ibid., P94/121).

57 Barry believed that Mary MacSwiney, Constance Markievicz and Mrs (Kathleen) O'Callaghan had all refused to go to Australia (Kathleen Barry to Jim Moloney, 24 Dec. 1924 (U.C.D.A., Kathleen Barry Moloney papers, P94/56)). However, difficulties accessing passports prevented at least some of those who were asked from travelling. See Molly O'Brien's later statement that she and Mrs O'Callaghan were asked to go to Australia but could not secure passports (M.A.I., B.M.H., W.S. 363, p. 12).

58 Kathleen Barry to Jim Moloney, 8, 25 July, 14 Aug. 1924 (U.C.D.A., Kathleen Barry Moloney papers, P94/56).

59 Same to same, 23 Nov. 1924 (ibid., P94/127).

60 Same to same, 6 Nov. 1924 (ibid., P94/116).

61 List of subscribers, The Advocate (Melbourne), 25 Dec. 1924; Mary Mac[Swiney] to Kathleen Barry, 11 Dec.1924 (U.C.D.A., Kathleen Barry Moloney papers, P94/56).

62 Kathleen Barry to Jim Moloney, 8 Dec. 1924 (U.C.D.A., Kathleen Barry Moloney papers, P94/127).

63 ibid.

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75 Warrnambool Standard (Victoria), 29 Nov.1924.

76 An example is the leaflet for Queensland Irish Relief fund (U.C.D.A., Kathleen Barry Moloney papers, P94/56).

77 Fr Tom Lynch, West Wyalong, to Kathleen Barry, 24 Oct. 1924 (ibid., 94/56).

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83 Kathleen Barry to Jim Moloney, 29 Dec. 1924 (U.C.D.A., Kathleen Barry Moloney papers, P94/127).

84 Letterhead of the Queensland Relief Fund (ibid., P94/57).

85 Kathleen Barry to Jim Moloney, 24 Dec. 1924 (ibid., P94/127).

86 Same to same, 16 Jan. 1925 (ibid., P94/127).

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98 Same to same, 8 Jan. 1925 (ibid., P94/127).

99 M. Moran, O.S.A., St Monica's, Cairns, to Kathleen Barry, 2 Feb. 1925 (U.C.D.A. Kathleen Barry Moloney papers, P94/56).

100 M. R. MacGinley, ‘McDonnell, Francis (Frank) (1863–1928)’ in Australian Dictionary of Biography (http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcdonnell-francis-frank-7343/text12747) (23 December 2018).

101 Catholic Advocate (Brisbane), 3 Sept. 1914.

102 Brisbane Courier, 28 Nov. 1928; Rodney Sullivan and Robin Sullivan, ‘The Queensland Irish Association, 1898–1928: heroes and memorials’ in Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, xv (2015), p. 22.

103 Copy of notice of meeting addressed to W. Fegan, 30 Dec. 1924 (U.C.D.A., Kathleen Barry Moloney papers, P94/56).

104 Peter McLachlan, secretary of the Self-Determination for Ireland League of Australia, Queensland Branch, to Kathleen Barry, 11 Jan. 1925 (ibid., P94/56).

105 Kathleen Barry to Peter McLachlan, 11 Jan. 1925 (ibid., P95/56).

106 D. M. O'Flynn to Kathleen Barry, 23 Feb. 1924 (ibid., P94/56).

107 Freeman's Journal, 12 Feb.1925.

108 Catholic Press, 19 Feb. 1925.

109 Ibid.

110 Chief Secretary, Queensland, to Kathleen Barry and Linda Kearns, 14 Jan. 1925 (U.C.D.A., Kathleen Barry Moloney papers, P94/56); J. Fihelly to Mr J. Bugacott, Jan. 1925 (ibid.).

111 Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall, ‘Catholic Irish Australia and the labor movement: race in Australia and nationalism in Ireland, 1880s–1920s’ in Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist (eds), Frontiers of labor: comparative histories of the United States and Australia (Urbana, Chicago, 2018), pp 152–3.

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118 William Fegan to Kathleen Barry, 25 Jan. 1925 (ibid.).

119 Kathleen Barry to Jim Moloney, 20 Jan. 1925 (ibid., P94/127).

120 D. M. O'Flynn to Kathleen Barry Moloney, 23 Feb. 1925 (ibid., P94/56).

121 Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton), 5 Mar. 1925.

122 Various reports, including Catholic Press, 19 Feb.1925; Freeman's Journal, 9 Feb. 1925.

123 Freeman's Journal, 19 Feb. 1925.

124 ‘Under the Red Flag’ and a letter to the editor by Sir Thomas Henley, recently retired M.L.A., Sydney Morning Herald, 18 Feb. 1925.

125 Invitation from Communist Party, Sydney, to Kathleen Barry and Linda Kearns, 16 Feb.1925. (U.C.D.A. Kathleen Barry Moloney papers, P94/56).

126 Sydney Morning Herald, 20, 23 Feb. 1925.

127 Ibid., 23 Feb. 1925.

128 Mark Lyons, ‘Oakes, Charles William (1861–1928)’ in Australian Dictionary of Biography (http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/oakes-charles-william-7866/text13669) (23 Dec. 2018); The Sun (Sydney), 24 Feb. 1925. The Northern Star (Lismore, New South Wales) reported, on 25 Feb. 1925, that he had said they were creating revolution within the British Empire.

129 Newcastle Morning Herald (New South Wales), 25 Feb. 1925; Kathleen Barry to Jim Moloney, 26 Feb. 1925 (U.C.D.A., Kathleen Barry Moloney papers, P94/127). To date no evidence has been found in the archives of the Australian intelligence agencies to indicate that there was formal surveillance.

130 D. M. O'Flynn to Kathleen Barry, 17 Mar. 1926 (U.C.D.A., Kathleen Barry Moloney papers, P94/67).

131 Freeman's Journal, 22 Mar. 1928. More research is needed into the history of Cumann na mBan in Australia, Anne-Marie Whitaker, ‘The Irish Women's Club: Cumann na mBan in Sydney, 1919–1935’, paper delivered at the 23rd Australasian Conference of Irish Studies, November 2018, University of Sydney.

132 Copy of letter from Cumann na mBan in Melbourne to president of Cumann na mBan, Dublin. July 1925 (U.C.D.A., Kathleen Barry Moloney papers, P94/67); Maree McKee to Kathleen Barry, 2 Feb. 1926 (ibid.).

133 The Telegraph (Brisbane), 15 Aug. 1925.

134 ‘Papers of Kathleen Barry Moloney, P94, descriptive catalogue’, p. v (https://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/p0094-moloney-kathleen-barry-descriptive-catalogue.pdf) (18 Jan. 2019).

135 She died in 1969 (Irish Press, 13 Jan. 1969); my thanks to Professor Eunan O'Halpin for this reference and for sharing recollections of his grandmother.

136 Ó Duigneáin, Linda Kearns, pp 123–65; McCoole, No ordinary women, p. 178.

137 The interview was published in An Phoblacht (Dublin), 3 July 1925, cited in Ó Duigneáin, Linda Kearns, p. 97. Parts of the interview were also published in Southern Cross (Adelaide), 3 July 1925.

138 ‘Accounts of Reconstruction Committee, I.R.P.D.F.’ (N.L.I., MS 42,024, p. 310).

139 ‘Accounts’ (N.L.I., MS 42,024, p. 41).

140 ‘Reconstruction Committee, I.R.P.D.F.’ (N.L.I., MS 42,023).

141 Ó Duigneáin, Linda Kearns, pp 99–100.

142 Fr M. Moran to Kathleen Barry, 2 Feb.1925 (U.C.D.A., Kathleen Barry Moloney papers, P94/56).

143 The Truth (Brisbane), 18 Jan. 1925.

144 Kathleen Barry to Jim Moloney, 24 Dec. 1924 (U.C.D.A., Kathleen Barry Moloney papers, P94/127).

145 Ó Duigneáin, Linda Kearns, p. 157.

146 Margaret Buckley quoted in Ryan, ‘Splendidly silent’, p. 38.

147 Versions of this paper were given at the Australian Women's History Network conference, Melbourne, 2016 and the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand conference, Adelaide, 2016. Research was funded by the Australian Research Council and Victoria University, Melbourne. I am also grateful to Elizabeth Malcolm, Antoine Guillemette, Val Noone, Rod Sullivan, and Eunan O'Halpin.