Gender equality was the radical promise of the 1916 rebellion. The reality was very differentIt was never just England. It was always Pagan England. When I was a small child at school in Ireland,that was the dissimilarity between us. England was pagan, and Ireland was holy. And Holy Ireland had no place for liberated women.
So what happened to the promise of equality in the Proclamation of the Irish Republic read out on Easter Monday 1916 by the poet and rebel leader Patrick Pearse, and addressed to “Irishmen and Irishwomen”? The proclamation declared an close to British rule but it also guaranteed religious and civil liberty,equal rights and equal opportunities for all citizens. It made a commitment to universal suffrage, extraordinary for the time, and two years before women in Britain won the vote.
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Source: theguardian.com