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WHO ARE THE "ARMAGH WOMEN'? "They are 'stitchers', 'cutters', ‘shoo assistants’ and mothers. from the anti-unionist areas of the North of Ireland. They ore the children of our times, virtually all of them under 10 years of age when the political status) maintained by women. Women who, os Rose McAllister describes, "organised themselves into vigilante groups and such, blowing whistles and banging bin-lids and picketing at the drop of an insult". \ HE of women's everyday experiences in the North over the last 10 years. This is mainly done through the in-depth interview, with three women, perhaps the best part of the book, because they provide a glimpse of the untold story of working class women's problems. Scores of marr-