Valerie Place
Irish nurse and overseas aid worker
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Brenda Bell
New Zealand radio pioneer
Rāhui Te Kiri Tenetahi
Ngāti Wai and Ngāti Whatua woman of mana, ship owner and land claimant
Rīpeka Wharawhara Love
Rīpeka Wharawhara Love was through descent and marriage kin to Te Āti Awa chiefs whose mana continued to extend over the Wellington region after the arrival of Pākehā settlers in 1840.
Piipi Cummins
Maori woman of mana, great determination and forceful character
Máirín Cregan
Irish republican and writer
Sophia St John Whitty
Irish woodcarver, teacher and cooperativist
Muriel Agnes Heagney
Australian pioneer of women’s rights and equal pay, a feminist and trade unionist and astrographic measurer and computer at Melbourne Observatory from November 1906 until August 1910
Maire Comerford
Irish republican and journalist
Máirín Beaumont
Irish teacher and nationalist