Using memoirs, reminiscences, letters and diaries, the author explores the question of what it meant to be a female nationalist between 1900 and 1918, revealing how Irish women formed nationalist, cultural and feminist groups of their own as well as how they influenced broader political developments. She covers a range of women's nationalist activism from constitutional nationalism to republicanism, beginning in 1900 with the foundation of Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Ireland) and ending in 1918 with the enfranchisement of women, the collapse of the Irish Party and the ascendancy of Sinn Fein.