Lloyd George offered his opinion that such militancy had strengthened the opponents of suffrage, and that it had converted those who opposed suffrage with indifference to a position of bitter ...

It did not help that the main leaders of unionism and nationalism at the time, Edward Carson and John Redmond, were both opposed to women’s suffrage. Another organisation, The Irish Women’s ...

Curry, however, opposed the suffragettes and vociferously argued that “only men could be chosen as watchers.” Despite his support for the women of “Suffragist Slope”, the minimal election ...