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Dr Marie Lea-Wilson
The story of Dr Marie Lea-Wilson, one-time owner of Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ.
Margaret Elizabeth Cousins
Social reformer and women’s activist
Biddy Early
The wise women of the West
The Overend Women
Independent women of the 1900s
Typhoid Mary
Mary Mallon: Typhoid victim
Ettie Steinberg
The Only Irish Victim of the Holocaust
The Female Orphan Scheme to Australia in the 1840s
"Morally pure" girls were selected from Irish workhouses for the scheme
Peg Plunkett
Brothel madam
Ellen Hutchins (1785-1815)
Ireland's first female botanist
Matilda Knowles
Pioneering Irish Botanist and Lichenologist
Kay McNulty
Mother of modern computer programming
The Ulster Crisis and the Emergence of the Ulster Women’s Unionist Council
The women of the Ulster Unionist movement
Margaret Skinnider
Rebel of 1916
Kathleen Clarke
Dublin’s first woman Lord Mayor
Mary Robinson
President and human rights activist
Dirty Protests
Symbolism behind Troubles' protests
Mary Moore
1798 rebel
Christina Noble
Philanthropist & Children's rights activist
Constance Markievicz
Politian, Rebel and Revolutionary
Roesia de Verdun
Norman femme sole