Róisín Walsh
Irish librarian and republican
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Sirimavo Bandaranaike
The world’s first woman Prime Minister, Sirimivo Bandaranaike, was elected in Sri Lanka in 1960s.
Ellen Mulcahy
Early twentieth-century Labor activist based in Melbourne.
Dr Kathleen Lynn
Irish medical practitioner and political activist
Annie M P Smithson
Irish author, nurse, republican and trade unionist
Mary Perolz
Irish republican and trade unionist
Sheelagh Murnaghan
Irish barrister and politician
Margaret Skinnider
Irish republican, teacher, and trade unionist
Nuala Fennell
Irish feminist and politician
Annie S Swan
Scottish novelist whose sentimental fiction spoke to the nostalgia of a Scottish diaspora, evoking a way of life and set of values increasingly outmoded in the modern world.