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- Title
'Exercising a close vigilance over their daughters': Cork women, American sailors, and Catholic vigilantes, 1917-18.
- Authors
Borgonovo, John
- Abstract
The article discusses the local response to the arrival of American sailors of the U.S. Navy during World War I in the city of Cork, Ireland. The Americans were reported to have large sums of available money compared to local Irish men, and while on leave, were often observed spending time with Irish girls. Local response to a perceived increase in prostitution, with a rise in the incidence of venereal diseases and pregnancy, helped encourage local vigilance activities to thwart efforts of young Irish women from spending time with the Americans. Other topics include the street violence of September 1917 and March 1918, military-civil relations, the Republican movement, and the Catholic Church's reaction to Irish women socializing with American sailors.
- Subjects
CORK (Ireland); IRELAND; WORLD War I; UNITED States armed forces -- Foreign service; 20TH century United States armed forces; WOMEN &; war; DATING (Social customs); MAN-woman relationships; POLITICAL stability; CIVIL-military relations; IRISH history -- 1910-1921; RELIGION
- Publication
Irish Historical Studies, 2012, Vol 38, Issue 149, p89
- ISSN
0021-1214
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S002112140000064X