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Women are a small minority of political officeholders in Ireland. The main factors are the role of traditional Catholicism in Irish political culture and the role of localism in party politics. [47] Ann Marie O'Brien has studied the women in the Irish Department of External Affairs associated with the League of Nations and United Nations, 1923 ...
The highest number of women ever in an Irish cabinet is four, a number first reached in 2004–2007, and again in each cabinet from 2014 to the present. However, this amounts to only 27% of the 15 ministers, and has been criticised by the National Women's Council of Ireland as "way off a gender-balanced Cabinet". [43]
Women in a Celtic Church: Ireland 450–1150 is a historical study of the role of women in the religious institutions of Early Medieval Ireland written by the American academic Christina Harrington, it was first published by Oxford University Press in 2002.
As slaves, women had an important economic role on account of their craft work, such that in Ireland, the word cumal ('slave woman', Old Welsh: aghell and caethverched) was also the term for a common measure of wealth (a cumal, worth ten sét ['cows']).
The Women for Election group said Ireland was the 104th in the world in terms of the number of women in national parliaments. It said the last Daíl (Irish parliament) had 37 women TDs (members of ...
Irish women have had a long history of involvement in political movements throughout Ireland. In 1798, women were involved in the United Irish movement in a number of ways. For instance, they transported arms, kept the male Irish rebels fed and clothed, and would help to defend their camps. United Irish meetings were frequently held at women ...
The main factors are the role of traditional Catholicism in Irish political culture and the role of localism in party politics. [197] Ann Marie O'Brien has studied the women in the Irish Department of External Affairs associated with the League of Nations and United Nations, 1923–1976. She finds that women had greater opportunities at the UN ...
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, who in 1977 became the first female Parliamentary Secretary; and in 1978 became the first female Minister of State.. A Minister of State in Ireland (also called a junior minister) is of non-cabinet rank attached to one or more Departments of State of the Government of Ireland and assists a Minister of that government.