Charlotte Despard in Ireland in the 1920s
Charlotte Despard and Irish republican Maud Gonne Part two of a series on the feminist and socialist Charlotte Despard (1844-1939). Part one is here . “Bad news from Ireland… (the General Post Office) is in the hands of the rebels”. That was an entry in Charlotte Despard’s diary in April 1916. A couple of days later she wrote “the Irish trouble seems to be spreading”. These in-passing comments in Charlotte’s diary, written in the midst of World War One and all the activities and causes she was involved in on the ground in London, were about events yet to have a significant impact on her. The...