Sighle Humphreys
Irish republican activist
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Caroline Love Goodwin O’Day
A longtime suffragist with strong ties to New York politics and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Caroline O’Day was an unwavering supporter of New Deal legislation and a fervent pacifist during her four terms in the US House of Representatives.
Dr Elizabeth Lewis Otey
Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis Otey was an economist, an activist in the Virginia and national suffrage movements, and a political candidate for the Republican and Socialist parties.
Venie Barr
Irish political and community activist
Teresa Brayton
Irish-American poet and nationalist
May O’Callaghan
20th century Irish journalist, translator and communist
Sarah Cecilia Harrison
Irish painter and social campaigner; in 1912 she became the first woman to be elected to Dublin corporation.
Dr Mary Teresa Hayden
Irish historian and women’s rights campaigner
Halima Mohamud
Halima Mohamud’s extensive work continues to touch the lives of Somalis, particularly women, in Victoria, Australia.
Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh
1900s Irish actress and republican