| 词条 | Meg Connery |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Meg Connery | honorific_suffix = | image = Meg_Connery_Protesting.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Connery attempting to hand suffragist literature to Bonar Law (left) and Edward Carson (right) in 1912 | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = Margaret Connery | birth_date = 1879 | birth_place = | death_date = 1956 | death_place = | nationality = Irish | education = | alma_mater = | known_for = | notable_works =}} Meg Connery (1879–1956), was an Irish suffragist organiser and activist. LifeConnery was born in Westport, County Mayo. Her husband was Con Connery and they married while she was in her twenties. Little is known about her before her involvement with the Irish Women's Franchise League. Connery worked with Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington and was as becoming vice-chairwoman of the Irish Women's Franchise League. She was known for her activism, breaking windows and throwing rocks as well as demonstrating, working on the Irish Citizen and going to jail for the cause. She is particularly remembered for the photo taken of her distributing copies of the Irish Citizen to Bonar Law and Sir Edward Carson.{{sfn | Cambridge University Press}}{{sfn | Dublin City Council | 1913}}{{sfn | Moriarty | 2013}}{{sfn | History Ireland | 2013}} Imprisonments and demonstrationsConnery had no illusions that women would vote in any way differently than men, or that they would use their vote more effectively. She was against the double standards that occurred between women and men. She wrote about it for the Irish Citizen more than once.{{sfn | Cambridge University Press}}{{sfn | Dublin City Council | 1913}}{{sfn | Ryan | Ward | 2018 | p=29}}{{sfn | Catalogue | 1919}}{{sfn | Ward | 2017}}{{sfn | Steele | 2007 | p=179}}{{sfn | Luddy | 1995 | p=277}}{{sfn | Reynolds | 2007 | p=82}} In Ireland, as elsewhere, public morals must continue in an unhealthy state while we tolerate the shameful double moral standardDespite her regular arrests for destruction of property Connery was entirely against the use of violence to gain the vote. She was jailed for a week in November 1911 after one demonstration and again in November 1912 when she was with the group who broke windows at the Custom House. In 1912 she heckled Winston Churchill. In 1914 Connery arranged for the first speeches on suffrage in Longford, Leitrim, and Roscommon. In January 1913 she again broke the windows of Dublin Castle and was arrested, this time getting one month's imprisonment. During this time, while in Tullamore, the women went on hunger strike as part of their demand to be treated as political prisoners. One of the other prisoners, Hoskins suffered heart failure and was released. The other women won their position. Connery suffered a miscarriage in June 1914 [citation or source required]. From then on her health began to suffer.{{sfn | Cambridge University Press}}{{sfn | Dublin City Council | 1913}}{{sfn | Ryan | Ward | 2018 | p=29}}{{sfn | Catalogue | 1919}}{{sfn | Ward | 2017}}{{sfn | Steele | 2007 | p=179}}{{sfn | Luddy | 1995 | p=277}}{{sfn | Reynolds | 2007 | p=82}} 1914-1918During the first world war there was the introduction of the contagious diseases act which Connery protested as she felt the purpose was to make sex safe for men, especially the soldiers and sailors. In 1915 the British government closed the North Sea for the number of days around the international women's peace conference in The Hague and Irish women were unable to attend. Connery chaired the Irish protest meeting about this in Dublin. Although the Representation of the People Act, 1918 gave a vote to women Connery was critical of the limited access given and continued to demand full equality.{{sfn | Cambridge University Press}}{{sfn | Mulhall | 1915}}{{sfn | Steele | 2007 | p=179}}{{sfn | Steele | 2007 | p=179}}{{sfn | Luddy | 1995 | p=277}} Other concernsConnery was a member of the Irish Linen Worker's Union. She worked for improvements in working conditions. She also worked for the Irish White Cross and in 1922 she was part of a delegation to review the destruction in Tipperary and Cork by the wars in Ireland. Connery died in December 1956.{{sfn | Cambridge University Press}}{{sfn | Yeates | 2012 | p=282}} Further reading
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