The focus of this project is to explore the specific connections that exist between African-American and Irish women leaders involved in the Black Panther Party, Black Liberation Army, Peoples Democracy, and/or the Provisional Irish Republican Army. It analyses their personal letters, their political communiqués, their news coverage, and more importantly, their autobiographical literature about and/or during their imprisonment. It highlights the personal correspondence and narrative similarities in following key leaders/writers: Angela Y. Davis and Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Assata Shakur and Maria McGuire, and Ericka Huggins and Roseleen Walsh. In particular, it examines numerous literary similarities beyond historical associations in their work: (1) their work is well-known in activist circles, (2) their work is an important record of their political lives and lies at the intersections of civil rights/ anti-colonial/ feminist liberation movements, (3) their works are good examples of the ways in which political commitments and autobiographical impulses coalesce, and (4) their work represents a challenge to racialized/ gendered/ colonial power in their form and content. The features of their political autobiographical work demonstrate intentional departures from Renaissance autobiographys thematic preoccupation with individualism, especially in the form of their work. Instead, their political autobiographical work challenges notions of a rational, agentive, unitary I, for such texts of struggle are not written for individual growth, but rather collective struggle. It looks at rhetorical devices and narrative strategies that characterize work by African-American and Irish women. Their literary techniques question racialized/ gendered/ colonial power in five main areas: (1) use of capitalization, (2) misspelling, (3) shout-outs, (4) apologies, and (5) thank-yous. It will attempt to explore personal connections and stylistic similarities through interviews, as well. This project is concerned with the politics of revolution and voice in African-American and Irish womens textual expression on several levels.