Ann Lovett
Irish teen whose death sparked a national outcry, highlighting the treatment of teenage and unmarried mothers, as well as legal restrictions on contraception and the failings of the state in the provision of sex education
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Elizabeth Rivers
20th century Irish artist
Gertrude Frances Dunning
Irish philanthropist
Bernard Ncube
South African nun and activist
Mary Anne Anthony
1800s Irish litigant
Nora O’Mahony
Irish poet and novelist
Brigid Makowski
Irish republican and community activist
Dr Maura Lynch
Irish missionary nun and surgeon active in Angola and Uganda
Elizabeth Sugrue
1700s Irish executioner
Lindy Boggs
After winning a special election to succeed her husband, Congresswoman Boggs went on to serve 18 years in the US House of Representatives, becoming an advocate for women’s equality, economic opportunity for minorities, and the preservation of House heritage.