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Copied from Talk:Cumann na mBan#Elizabeth O'Farrell 'airbrushed':
Elizabeth O'Farrell wasn't airbrushed out, either literally or figuratively. In the single, amateur and very poor quality photograph of the surrender, only her feet were visible. These were airbrushed out for aesthetic reasons. Taking out a pair of boots is not taking out a person! And O'Farrell's mission to negotiate the surrender has always been part of the historical narrative. It is in Dorothy Macardle's The Irish Republic (1935), Max Caulfield's The Easter Rebellion (1963) and Foy and Barton's The Easter Rising (1999). The idea that she was airbrushed out of both the photograph and the history books is a 21st-century idea and is completely fallacious. Scolaire (talk) 17:12, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Can you provide evidence it was for aesthetic purposes? Anyway could it not just explain the view that she was airbrushed from history as opposed to stating it was fact? 80.111.42.187 (talk) 10:25, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Evidence it was for aesthetic purposes? The only alternative is "OMG! There's a bit of woman in this; if we leave it in it will mean the end of civilisation as we know it." Which is the more likely? If you mean, can I provide reliable sources, I don't need to as the article doesn't state it.
I'm not sure what your second question is? Are you asking if the article could explain the view? It does, since my edit: "This photograph was published 10 days later in the Daily Sketch newspaper. In subsequent reproductions, her feet were airbrushed out. This has led some modern commentators to claim that she was 'airbrushed from history'." But the article doesn't need a separate section just to say that. Scolaire (talk) 11:27, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
