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Advance Information Our Future Will Become the Past of Other Women Advance Information Our future will become the past of other women Author: Eavan Boland Illustrator: Paula McGloin Publication date: 5 December 2018 Extent: 8 pages, foldouts Format: Hardback with foiling, illustrated Rights: Worldwide ISBN: 978-1-911479-00-0 Publisher: Royal Irish Academy Price: €30 / £28 / $50 http://bit.ly/RIAsuffrage A new poem by Eavan Boland accompanied by specially commissioned illustrations by Paula McGloin to mark 100 years since the women of Ireland, Mná na hÉireann, were granted suffrage and first cast their ballots in the 1918 election. A rare limited edition gift produced for sale in addition to those produced for a public reading at the UN organised by the Irish government. Each page folds out and is illustrated by a figure. Suitable for framing. The poem appears in 7 languages: Irish, English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish and Russian with translations by poets Reem Dawood, Huiyi Bao, Pura López-Colomé, Aifric Mac Aodha, Grigory Kruzhkov and Clíona Ní Ríordáin. The book is published by the Royal Irish Academy in collaboration with the Irish govern- ment and is exclusively available for sale from the Royal Irish Academy. A video of the poem with a voiceover by Fiona Shaw is available. About the author: Eavan Boland, MRIA is an Irish poet and author whose work deals with Irish national identity and the role of women in Irish history. About the illustrator: Paula McGloin is a Dublin-based illustrator and surface pattern designer. Show me your hand. I see our past, Imagine these women Our island that was once All those who called for it, Your palm roughened by heat, by frost. Gathering one by one in Irish cities Settled and removed on the edge The vote for women. By pulling a crop out of the earth Late in 1918. In a cold winter. Of Europe is now a bridge All those who had the faith By lifting a cauldron off the hearth. Each of them ready to enter To the world. And so we share That voices can be raised. Can be heard. By stripping rushes dipped in fat History: called to their duties This day with women everywhere. All those who saw their hopes To make a wick make a rush light. As citizens to exercise For those who find the rights they need Become the law. All those who woke That was your world: your entry to This hard-won right: this franchise. To be hard won, not guaranteed, In a new state flowering Our ancestry in our darkest century. They vote in the shadow of their past. Not easily given, for each one From an old nation and found Ghost-sufferer, our ghost-sister They vote in the light of what will be We have a gift, a talisman: Remind us now again that history Their new nation whose quest The memory of these Irish women Justice no longer blind. changes in one moment with one mind. For freedom speaks to their own. Who struggled and prevailed. Inequity set aside. That it belongs to us, to all of us. If we could only summon For whose sake we choose And freedom re-defined. As we mark these hundred years Or see them these women, These things from their date We will not leave you behind. Foremothers of the nurture To honor, to remember and to celebrate: And dignity that will come No one is left behind or should be To all of us from this day As we honor this centenary: We could say across the century A hundred years ago a woman’s vote To each one—give me your hand: Becoming law became the right It has written our future. Of Irish women. We remember them Our future will become As we celebrate this freedom. The past of other women. Freedom is not abstract, is not a concept, Is not an ethic only nor a precept. It can also be a hope raised then defeated Then renewed. It can be a voice braided Into the silences of other women Who came before. Today we note The achievement of Irish suffragists. Louie Bennett, Cissie Cahalan, Helen Chenevix, Charlotte Despard, Louise Gavan Duffy, As we mark the act, the law, the vote We honor also the hours of doubt, Eva Gore-Booth, Anna Haslam, Kathleen Lynn, Mary MacSwiney, Helena Molony, The years of work. Today we offer Florence Moon, Sarah Persse, Constance Markievicz, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, To these women our thanks. Here we say some of their names Louisa Todhunter, Jenny Wyse Power To honor all of their names: Text.indd 3 22/10/2018 13:39:24 Royal Irish Academy www.ria.ie 19 Dawson Street Tel: +353 1 6762570 Ireland and UK orders to [email protected] Dublin 2 Fax: +353 1 6762346 North American orders to www.ipgbooks.com Republic of Ireland [email protected].
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