ABSTRACT
This chapter challenges the absence of the 'troubled province' from the dominant transnational narrative of the seminal period of revolt, and examines the question of gender in Northern Ireland's 1968 as one factor in that absence. Northern Ireland's 1968 is a pertinent example of the possibilities on offer to reassess and even recalibrate memories of the seminal moments. Following a brief overview of how the case of Northern Ireland has been marginalised in an increasingly consensual interpretation of 1968 as a global wave of protest, the chapter assesses the place of the gender issue in the Northern Irish context. It argues that the perceived absence of the gender question is not something that need set Northern Ireland apart. The chapter problematises the predominant interpretation that 1968 stimulated the subsequent surge in feminist activism and explores the concept of this period as in fact a 'negative catalyst' in this domain.
