Honesty: The Stinging Fly on the Rump of Free State Respectability
This essay will examine the exposé of the realities regarding poverty, immorality and sexual crime in the Irish Free State by the radical journal Honesty (1925-1931).Honesty was edited by the socialist republican James W.Upton, a man with a longstanding commitment to the rights of women and the poor.Upton was by instinct anti-establishment in an e