Kathleen Cruise O’Brien
Irish teacher, suffragist and Irish language enthusiast
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Mary G Phillips
She graduated from the US Army School of Nursing in 1929 and was one of the school’s few alumnae to join the Army Nurse Corps.
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Writer, historian, and lecturer, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese is a pioneer in the field of women’s studies, having shaped Emory University’s Institution of Women’s Studies as its first director from 1986 to 1991.
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Frances Parkinson Keyes was a prolific journalist, editor, memoirist, and biographer, but was most well known as a bestselling novelist.
Molly Elliot Seawell
Molly Elliot Seawell was the author of forty books, including regional fiction, romances, books for boys (primarily nautical stories), and nonfiction.
Charlotte Margaret Rumbold
Active in urban planning in two cities: St. Louis, Missouri, and Cleveland, Ohio
Kip Tiernan
Indefatigable activist for social and economic justice
Eleanor Dillon
1600s Irish nun
Cecily Dillon
1600s Irish co-foundress and first abbess of the Irish Poor Clares in Dublin, Bethlehem and Athlone
Celeste Bowe
Irish Daughter of Charity and nurse