Dr Patricia Sheehan
Irish medical doctor, speech therapist, and campaigner against nuclear power
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Dagmar Šimková
Following the communist coup of February 1948 in Czechoslovakia, as many as 100,000 people were prosecuted for ‘political crimes’, most of whom were sentenced to lengthy periods in penal institutions and forced labour camps, including Dagmar Šimková, who later produced a detailed autobiographical account of her experiences in prison, Byly jsme tam taky [“We were there too”].
Mary Edith Dunlop
Irish campaigner for the welfare of the blind
Jane Franklin
When her husband was sent to Tasmania as Governor in the 1830s and 40s, she travelled widely, improved the wretched conditions that female prisoners endured, encouraged the building of schools for boys and girls, commissioned a temple, and founded a museum.
Mariga Guinness
German-English architectural conservationist and socialite
Sydney Czira
Irish journalist, broadcaster, and republican
Philomena Ryan
Irish chemist
Grace Hilda Cuthberta Ross
New Zeland activist for the the welfare of children, women, the needy and the disadvantaged
Mary O’Malley
Irish theatrical director and activist, co-founder of the Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast
Henrietta White
Principal of Alexandra College, Dublin, horticulturist, and social activist