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"Mr de Valera has always been a reactionary where women are concerned. He dislikes and distrusts us as a sex and his aim ever since he came into office has been to put us into what he considers is our place and keep us there." - Gertrude Gaffney (1937)

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For more see Maria Luddy's A 'Sinister and Retrogressive' Proposal: Irish Women's Opposition to the 1937 Draft Constitution (Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 175-195

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