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 ...

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 ...

They particularly wanted the men that were opposed to the movement to be aware of the connection of the colours to the suffrage. “In this they succeeded. The characters on many anti-suffrage ...