Kitty Lovell-Smith
New Zealand linotype operator, shop manager, feminist and community worker
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Matilda Lo Keong
Matilda Kum, also named Cum Hong, was the first identified Chinese female immigrant to New Zealand, where she raised the first known family of entirely Chinese descent.
Blanche Carnachan
New Zealand teacher, educationalist and community worker
Lily Atkinson
New Zealand temperance campaigner, suffragist and feminist
Kathleen Delap
Irish activist in women’s organisations
Leslie de Barra
Irish republican and Red Cross pioneer
Irene Calvert
Irish public servant and MP
Lily Anderson
Irish social campaigner and communist who joined the Communist Party in 1942 and served for many years on its subcommittees for social services, education, and women. She was best known as a campaigner for better nursery facilities in Belfast during the 1960s.
Lizzie Burns
Irish nationalist
Lucy Bhreatnach
Basque-Irish language activist, and co-founder of the first gaelscoil in Ireland