List of Irish suffragists and suffragettes

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This is a list of Irish suffragists who were born in Ireland or whose lives and works are closely associated with that country.

Suffragists and suffragettes

• Elizabeth Bell (1862–1934) – Belfast’s first female physician, direct-action protester.^[1]
• Louie Bennett (1870–1956) – suffragette, trade unionist, writer^[2]
• Mary Fleetwood Berry (1865–1956) – suffragist, radical feminist ^[3]
• Cadiz sisters – Rosie and Lily also known as Jane and Maggie Murphy
• Cissie Cahalan (1876–1948) – trade unionist, feminist, suffragette
• Winifred Carney (1887–1943) – suffragist, trade unionist and Irish independence activist
• Helen Chenevix (1886–1963) – suffragist, trade unionist
• Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904) – writer, suffragist, animal advocate, women's suffrage campaigner
• Meg Connery (1879–1956) – suffragist organiser and activist
• Margaret "Gretta" Cousins (1878–1954) – Irish-Indian, established All India Women's Conference, co-founded Irish Women's Franchise League
• Mabel Sharman Crawford (1820–1912) – Irish adventurer, feminist and writer
• Charlotte Despard (1844–1939) – Anglo-Irish suffragist, socialist, pacifist, Sinn Féin activist, and novelist
• Margaret Dockrell (1849–1926) – suffragist, philanthropist, councillor
• Marion Duggan (1884–1943) – Irish suffragist and activist
• Norah Elam (1878–1961) – Irish-born British suffragette and fascist
• Dr. Maude Glasgow (1876–1955) – early pioneer in public health and preventive medicine as well as an activist for equal rights ^[4]
• Maud Gonne (1866–1953) – British-born Irish revolutionary, suffragette and actress ^[5]
• Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1926) – poet, dramatist, suffragette, labour activist
• Anna Haslam (1829–1922) – founder of the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association^[6]
• Marjorie Hasler (c. 1887 – 1913) – suffragette, "first martyr" ^[7][8][9]
• Mary Hayden (1862–1942) – suffragist, women's rights activist
• Rosamond Jacob (1888–1960) – writer, suffragist, republican activist
• Marie Johnson (1874–1974) – Irish trade unionist, suffragist and teacher
• Laura Geraldine Lennox (1883–1958) – suffragette and war volunteer in Paris
• Isa Macnie (1869–1958) – croquet champion, cartoonist, suffragist and activist
• Mary MacSwiney (1872–1942) – suffragist, politician, educationalist
• Margaret McCoubrey (1880–1955) – Scottish-born Irish suffragist, co-operative movement activist ^[10]
• Elizabeth McCracken (1871–1944) – feminist writer, refused wartime suspension of suffragist struggle.
• Lillian Metge (1871–1954), "Lisburn bomber": direct action suffragette
• Constance Markievicz (1868–1927) – politician, revolutionary, suffragette ^[11][12]
• Florence Moon (fl. 1914) – suffragist, member of the Women's National Health Association
• Marguerite Moore (1849–1933) – nationalist activist, suffragist, "first suffragette"
• Alicia Adelaide Needham (1863–1945) – song composer, suffragette
• Kathleen Cruise O'Brien (1886–1938) – suffragist, Irish language advocate, teacher ^[13][14]
• May O'Callaghan (1881–1973) – suffragette, communist
• Mary Donovan O'Sullivan (1887–1966) – history professor, suffragist ^[15]
• Alice Oldham (1850–1907) – education campaigner, academic, suffragist
• Sarah Persse (fl. 1899) – suffragist
• Anne Isabella Robertson (c. 1830 – 1910) – writer and suffragist
• Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington (1877–1946) – founder-member of the Irish Women's Franchise League ^[16]
• Margaret Skinnider (1892–1971) – Scottish-born Irish revolutionary, feminist, suffragist
• Isabella Tod (1836–1896) – Scottish-born Irish unionist, helped secure women the municipal vote in Belfast.^[17][18]
• Catherine Winter (campaigner) (died 1870) – Irish publicist, suffragist and campaigner
• Jenny Wyse Power (1858–1941) – feminist, politician, suffragist
• Edith Young (1882–1974) – Irish suffragist organiser and activist

See also

• List of suffragists and suffragettes
• Timeline of women's suffrage

References

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