Diarmait Mac Murchada! The very one who sold us out to the Normans! I shan't hold your great-grandfather's crimes against you, but he's not popular among my friends. We've been fighting to fix the problems he started for 800 years!
They do it that way in America already! They gained their independence from England in 1776, and have set up a Republic of their own. It seems to be working beautifully for them, and we want the same freedoms.
Your husband's father's a fool then, sorry to say. I helped in the war, I was a member of Cumann na mBan during the war; I helped the men in every way I could. And I worked just as hard for Ireland's freedom as they did, and lost just as much - my brother, my home, my fiancé - all lost. Do I not deserve a say too?
It's a step. It's the first step towards a Republican government. A small step, but the first.