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- Title
"She Came as a Stranger and Made Herself One of Us": Two Irish Women and Anti-colonial Agitation in Trinidad, 1938-1945.
- Authors
Brereton, Bridget
- Abstract
In 1938, two young Irish women, Catherine (Kay) Donnellan and Eleanor Francis (Frank) Cahill, arrived in Trinidad to teach at a Catholic girls' school. They soon got involved in working with the new trade unions and with young anti-colonial intellectuals who put out a monthly magazine. For these activities, they were first dismissed from their teaching posts, and then interned without trial in early 1941 under wartime regulations. Donnellan committed suicide a few months later while Cahill remained a detainee until early 1945. This article will examine how their gender intersected with their ethnicity, nationality, class, religion, age and sexual conduct to ensure that their admittedly brief involvement in radical politics in Trinidad just before and during World War II transgressed all the norms of colonial Caribbean society.
- Subjects
TRINIDAD; ANTI-imperialist movements; DONNELLAN, Catherine
- Publication
Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, 2018, Vol 12, p319
- ISSN
1995-1108
- Publication type
Article