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LIGHT FESTIVAL
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Schools Workshops
Launch @ Uisneach
Press
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WORKING WITH 37 HERSTORIANS from universities across the Uk and Ireland, WE ARE BRINGING HUNDREDS OF REMARKABLE IRISH WOMEN OUT OF THE SHADOWS. HERE ARE JUST A FEW...
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Dr Isabel ‘Ida’ Deane Mitchell / Presbyterian missionary
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ANNIE BESANT / Secularist, politician, theosophist
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SARAH ‘FANNY’ DURACK / Olympic swimmer and world-record holder
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EILEEN GRAY / Modernist Furniture Designer & Architect
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Dec 11, 2018
MARY HARNEY: Academic and Activist
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MARY ELMES / ‘The Irish Oskar Schindler’
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SHEELAGH MURNAGHAN / Politician / Lawyer / Sportswoman / Civil Rights Activist
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Winifred Letts / Playwright, poet, novelist
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MARY PEARSE / Musician, teacher, actress, author
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MARGARET PEARSE / Educator, politician, Irish language activist
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COUNTESS MARKIEVICZ / Politician, revolutionary & suffragette
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KATHERINE JONES / Viscountess Ranelagh
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MARY ANN MCCRACKEN / Philanthropist, social activist & abolitionist
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MAEVE BRENNAN / Writer
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Apr 27, 2017
DAME KATHLEEN LONSDALE / Scientist, Educator & Activist
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KATHLEEN DELAP / Irish Countrywomen's Activist
Apr 27, 2017
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JOCELYN BELL BURNELL / Astrophysicist
Apr 27, 2017
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HANNA SHEEHY SKEFFINGTON / Suffragette & Republican
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FANNY JENNINGS / The duchess nun
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CONSTANCE WILDE (HOLLAND) / Campaigner for suffrage & rational dress
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CESAIRE / Mythical First Woman in Ireland
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CHARLOTTE WHEELER CUFFE / Botanist & Botanical Illustrator
Apr 26, 2017
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CHRISTINE LONGFORD / Playwright & Novelist
Apr 26, 2017
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LUCY, MARCHIONESS OF WHARTON / Society hostess and vicereine of Ireland
Mar 23, 2017
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RHODA COGHILL / Pianist, composer and poet
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Nov 9, 2016
CELIA HARRISON / Painter, feminist, nationalist and social reformer
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MADAME DRAGONFLY / Entomologist and explorer
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SHEILA TINNEY / Mathematical physicist
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MARIA EDGEWORTH / Playwright & novelist
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KAY MILLS / Record-making Camogie Player
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