Dr Patricia Sheehan
Irish medical doctor, speech therapist, and campaigner against nuclear power
Irish medical doctor, speech therapist, and campaigner against nuclear power
Irish paediatrician
Science fiction writer under the pen name James Tiptree Jr.
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.
French explorer and botanist who disguised herself as a man to go on an expedition and became the first known woman to circumnavigate the world
Irish chemist
Irish chemist and university professor
Irish geologist
Irish paediatrician
Irish entomologist and traveller