ABSTRACT
Feminist organizing in Northern Ireland garnered international attention in the wake of the peace process that ended the military campaign of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). This process gave birth to the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition, an all-female political party that claimed to span the ethnonational divide between Catholics and Protestants. The Coalition was drenched in the global limelight and heralded as a success for a feminist politics of peace. This particular history of the Troubles has, however, skewed the mapping of feminist organizing in the North as the over-emphasis on the Coalition comes at the expense of a vast array of feminist groups and campaigns. More broadly, the tendency to emphasize the ‘bridge-building’ politics has led to a dominant narrative of women’s organizing in the North that is far from holistic.
