Margaret Tynan
First woman mayor of Kilkenny, Ireland
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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.
Dr Grace Abbott
American social worker and an influential advocate for children’s and immigrants’ rights in the early 1900s whose work significantly shaped social welfare policies in the United States.
Chrodielde
Ambitious French nun in the 500s