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Marion Duggan (1884–1943) – Irish suffragist and activist; Norah Elam (1878–1961) – Irish-born British suffragette and fascist; Dr. Maude Glasgow (1876–1955) – early pioneer in public health and preventive medicine as well as an activist for equal rights; Maud Gonne (1866–1953) – British-born Irish revolutionary, suffragette and ...
Margaret "Gretta" Cousins (1878–1954) – Irish-Indian suffragist, founder of the All India Women's Conference and co-founder of the Irish Women's Franchise League Amrit Kaur (1887–1964) – political activist and politician who testified before the Lothian Committee on universal Indian franchise and constitutional reforms [ 20 ]
The Irish Women's Suffrage Society was an organisation for women's suffrage, founded by Isabella Tod as the North of Ireland Women's Suffrage Society in 1872. Determined lobbying by the Society ensured the 1887 Act creating a new city-status municipal franchise for Belfast conferred the vote on persons rather than men.
Irish suffragettes (15 P) Pages in category "Irish suffragists" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The Irish Women's Franchise League was formed in November 1908, with Sheehy-Skeffington among its founding members, along with her husband, Margaret Cousins, and James Cousins. Although it began with only twelve founding members, the I.W.F.L grew to become one of the largest suffrage groups that existed in the early twentieth century. [16]
Suffragette activism Horatia Dorothy Moloney Lancaster (29 September 1878 [ 1 ] – 1 December 1921 [ 2 ] )(variously known as Dorothy, Mary, Dolly, Miss Maloney and Miss Molony, Moloney and O'Connor ) was an Irish suffragette campaigner and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).
Louie Bennett (7 January 1870 – 25 November 1956) [1] was an Irish suffragette, trade unionist, journalist and writer. Born and raised in Dublin, she established the Irish Women's Suffrage Federation in 1911. She was a joint editor and contributor to the Irish Citizen newspaper.
Isabella Maria Susan Tod (18 May 1836 – 8 December 1896) was a Scottish-born campaigner for women’s civil and political equality, active in the north of Ireland. She lobbied for women’s rights to education and to property, for the dignified treatment of sex workers and, as an Irish unionist, for female suffrage.