Alice Lisle
Member of the English gentry who was executed for harbouring fugitives after the defeat of the Monmouth Rebellion at the Battle of Sedgemoor
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Adela of Champagne
Queen of France as wife of Louis VII, regent for her son
Margaret Tynan
First woman mayor of Kilkenny, Ireland
Alice Allison Dunnigan
In 1961, President Kennedy acknowledged Alice Dunnigan as the first African American White House correspondent after two years of being ignored. She became the first Black woman in the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries.
Dr Kate Waller Barrett
American physician, humanitarian, and social reformer
Helen Black
New Zealand mayor
Kay O’Riordan
Irish communist
Lucy Fitzgerald
1800s Irish political radical
Mairead Farrell
Irish republican paramilitary
Fran Lebowitz
American author, public speaker, and social commentator known for her sharp wit and incisive views on contemporary culture, politics, and the idiosyncrasies of modern life.