Beatrice Dixon
Irish pioneer of women’s participation in public life
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Margaret Dockrell
Irish suffragist, philanthropist, and councillor
Kathleen Lonsdale
Irish X-ray crystallographer and pacifist
Noeline Baker
New Zeaaland gardener’s Noeline Baker’s aim was to grow all plants indigenous to Stewart Island as listed by the botanist Leonard Cockayne. Over the next 15 years her garden became a place of botanical significance and in 1949 she was awarded the Loder Cup.
Maud Reeves
New Zealand suffragist and social reformer
Joss Shawyer
New Zealand activist and single mother Joss Shawyer campaigned for the rights of single mothers from the 1970s.
Anne Devlin
Irish nationalist and heroine
Emily White
Emily White made a significant contribution to community and horticultural life in New Zealand, and was her adopted country’s first woman gardening author of note.
Dr Barbara Stokes
Irish paediatrician and disability campaigner
Nora Herlihy
Founder of the Irish credit union movement