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Mar 3, 2018 · Jennifer O'Connell. Sat Mar 3 2018 - 06:00. History is filled with stories of great deeds, the exploits of rebels, patriots and politicians, writers and artists, scientists and innovators. They...
Hanun ó o. The 7,000 Hanun ó o (Bulalakao, Hampangan, Hanono-o, Mangyan) live in an area of 800 square kilometers at the southern end of Mindoro Island (12 ° 30 ′ N, 121 ° 10 ′ E), in the Philippines. They speak an Austronesian language, and most are literate, using an Indic-derived script that they write on bamboo.
Photo Credit: The O'Halloran Sisters, National Library of Ireland. Welcome to the Bibliography of Irish Women's History Compiled by the WHAI in partnership with the Department of History University of Galway, this ever-growing bibliography brings together works in Irish gender and women's history - over 1300 at present.
Mar 8, 2022 · A government program, part of Ireland's Decade of Centenaries, Mná100 (meaning Women100) is a commemorative program to document women in our history, particularly their contribution during the ...
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Women in Irish Society since 1800. Three distinct trajectories of change can be traced in the lives of women in Ireland over these two centuries. The first and most important area of change, as far as numbers were concerned, is the shifting relationship of women to the house as a site of unpaid or paid work.
- Maeve of Connacht
- Grace O'Malley
- Dr James Barry
- Catherine Hayes
- Katharine Tynan
- Annie Moore
- Constance Markievicz
According to legend, in pre-christian times Queen Maeve led the warriors of Connacht against the Men of Ulster to claim the most famous bull in Ireland. Her husband Ailill mac Máta had previously owned the greatest bull in the land, but upon hearing of a superior beast to the north, Maeve successfully captured it after a bloody battle. Ailill must ...
No list of formidable Irish women would be complete without tomboy icon Gráinne Ní Mháille, the notorious 'Pirate Queen' of western Ireland. Born on Clare Island, Co. Mayo in 1530, Grace famously cut off her hair after her father refused to take her on a voyage in case her locks got caught in the ropes. In her prime, O'Malley commanded 3 galleys, 2...
Margaret Ann Bulkley was an Irishwoman who lived as a man during the Victorian era in order to be accepted first as a university student, and later, as a renowned military surgeon. Going by the name Dr James Barry, Bulkley was born in Cork in 1795 and graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School in 1812 before becoming a surgeon in Lon...
Born in Limerick in 1818, Catherine Hayes became arguably the world's most famous opera star during the 19th century, and the first ever opera singer to tour Australia. According to London's Daily Expressnewspaper, "Hayes was the 'Madonna' of her day; she was the 19th-century operatic equivalent of the world's most famous pop star". Hayes, a renown...
Born in Dublin in 1859, this daughter of a cattle farmer began writing poetry on her father's farm as a teenager. Tynan went on to become an extraordinarily prolific writer and poet, penning 105 popular novels and countless newspaper articles – and was said to be able to write one novel per month in her prime. A close friend of W.B. Yeats, by the t...
Cork native Annie Moore became the first immigrant to be processed through the newly-opened Ellis Island in New York on January 1, 1892. Aged just 17 at the time, Annie looked after her brothers Phillip (7) and Anthony (11) on the ship over, before going on to have 11 children of her own with German Catholic salesman Joseph Augustus Schayer. Moore ...
Constance Markievicz became the first-ever female MP elected to the House of Commons in 1918, just two years after she took up arms against the British in the 1916 Rising in Dublin. The Countess was a staunch Irish Republican throughout her life, and refused to take her seat in Parliament on account of Sinn Féin's absenstionist policy, which endure...
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The Sources for Irish Women’s History Project is a database of resources on Irish women's history that can be searched by topic, archival institution, region, date and key words. This website remains the only detailed all-island listing of archival-based documents relating to the history of women in Ireland.
