Elizabeth Griffith
Irish playwright, novelist, and actress
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Marija Jurić Zagorka
The first professional political journalist in Croatia and South East Europe, a women’s rights’ advocate, one of the most widely-read Croatian writers ever, a co-founder of the Croatian Journalists Association, a novelist, a playwright, a screenwriter, one of the early pioneers of science fiction, the founder of the first women’s trade union organization in Croatia.
Helena Molony
Irish actress, republican, trade unionist and feminist
Deirdre O’Connell
Irish founder of the Focus Theatre
Rosy Gibb
Irish social worker, clown, and magician
Josephine Hart
Irish writer, theatrical producer and poetry promoter
Florine Stettheimer
A pioneer artist from early twentieth-century New York, Florine Stettheimer advanced new possibilities in painting for women artists.
Chloe Gibson
Irish theatre and television director
Mary O’Neill
Irish poet and playwright
Mary P Burrill
Mary P. Burrill was a celebrated playwright whose works inspired many prominent writers of the New Negro Movement/Harlem Renaissance. She used her plays to confront many topics, including, but not limited to, lynching, the Black experience, and bodily autonomy for women.