JOURNAL OF THE IRISH LABOUR HISTORY SOCIETY

34 SAOTHAR 13sought to rationalise the events of 1916 as 'but one more terrible manifestation of the many evilsconsequent upon the unwilling sUbjection of a weak nation to the rule of a great nation ... ':17 ,An advocate ofIrish unity, her more moderate stance was clearly informed by her pacifism. In 1916,she proposed to Thomas J ohnson th'e formation of a conference to find a solution to the Irish problem,while in ,1922 she was a member of the Women's Peace Committee which mediated between the sidesin the Civil War. ls In 1955 she wrote a Labour Party pamphlet proposing a 'reunited Irelarid'19 whileas a member of the Irish Association, she drafted' Suggestions for a Public Statement' ,another proposalfor unity. Bennett summed up her position to Connolly as that of' a pacifist first and before everything';conflict, whether between nations or bt: