Negotiating modernity and tradition: Newspaper debates on the ‘modern girl’ in the Irish free stateFootnote[1]

This article is based on a conference paper ‘The Shingle and Short Dresses: the demonisation of the ‘modern girl’ in the Irish Free State’ presented to the Bath College of Higher Education Conference, ‘Irish Encounters’, July 1996. The author would like to thank Keith Vernon, Joy Foster and Breda Gray for their advice and support during the writing of this paper.

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