Supporter of @HerstoryIreland, #EndPeriodPoverty and #EndVAWG. Believes the women of Ireland should have the right to full bodily autonomy. #RepealThe8th
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5 Oct 2020
Baroness Floella Benjamin OBE DL is a British actress, presenter, writer & politician. Floella has received multiple honours for her incredible career spanning over 40 years. She arrived in the UK from Trinidad in 1960 & is now a life peer. #BHM
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2 Oct 2020
Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE was just 20 when she received her Master’s from Oxford. In 2013, she founded Stemettes – an award-winning social enterprise inspiring more than 14,000 girls and young women into STEM. #BlackHistoryMonth
1 Oct 2020
Dame Shirley Bassey DBE is a Welsh singer, who rose to fame in the 1950s. Shirley has sold more than 135 million records over 7 decades. In 2019, she was awarded the Honorary Freedom of Cardiff. #BlackHistoryMonth
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3 Jul 2020
Policies like this disproportionately harm women, especially low-income and women of color who cannot afford full-time child care.
Working parents are essential to our economy. It’s time for families to be treated like it.
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27 Jun 2020
#OTD in 1903 - Francis Skeffington and Hanna Sheehy became husband and wife. Francis and Hanna each took the other's surname as a gesture of belief in equal status for women. #IrishHistory #Irishwmnhist @HerstoryIreland
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30 May 2020
The first @RosaForWomen Covid-19 response fund is open. Help us get the word out to women's organisations across the UK @lmsercombe @Samsmethers @fionamac2017 @JemimaOlchawski @Jess_Southgate @maryanncv8 @AmyLWGibbs @SophieRunning @pollytrenow @HelenBerresford
29 May 2020
📢 APPLICATIONS OPEN: Rosa's Covid-19 Response Fund will provide grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 to specialist women's organisations across the UK.
There's no deadline: we're considering applications on a rolling basis from 5pm on 5th June. rosauk.org/funds/rosas-covid…
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28 May 2020
Revolutionary and feminist Margaret Skinnider (aka 'The School Teacher Turned Sniper') was born #OTD in 1892 in Coatbridge, Scotland. She fought as a sniper in the Easter Rising in 1916, the only female combatant wounded in action
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27 Mar 2020
Máirín Cregan (27 March 1891 - 9 Nov 1975) was an Irish nationalist who was involved in the 1916 Easter Rising and Irish war of independence. She later made her name writing for children as well as adults. x.com/Kerry1916Book/status/6… #WomensHistoryMonth
26 Mar 2020
Wishing a very Happy Birthday to an absolute gem of a programme, the award-winning @BBCDoctors. Celebrating 20 years on air today! Congratulations to the cast and team (past and present) on achieving this fantastic milestone. #bbcdoctors
23 Mar 2020
Maud Gonne - Irish revolutionary, activist, suffragette and muse to W B Yeats. In 1900 she co-founded Inghindhne na hEireann, an Irish women’s radical, cultural nationalist, militant feminist and separatist organisation. #WomensHistoryMonth x.com/MaryMcAuliffe4/status/…
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21 Mar 2020
Oonagh Keogh was the world's first female stockbroker, who was admitted to the Dublin Stock Exchange in 1925. In contrast, the first women were admitted to the New York and London Stock Exchanges in 1967 and 1973 respectively. x.com/ThisDayIrish/status/11… #WomensHistoryMonth
19 Mar 2020
Isabella Mulvany became the first woman in Ireland to graduate from university with a degree in 1884. After receiving a BA from the Royal University of Ireland, Mulvany would go on to become President of the Irish Association of Women Graduates. x.com/ThisDayIrish/status/11… #WHM
17 Mar 2020
Happy #StPatricksDay! The Irish Citizen was founded in 1912 as an Irish suffrage newspaper by the Irish Women's Franchise League. Here's St. Patrick calling for #VotesForWomen on one of its front pages. #IrelandofEquals x.com/donna_cooney1/status/9… @HerstoryIreland
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15 Mar 2020
Mella Carroll became the first female judge appointed to the High Court of Ireland in 1980, where she'd sit for 25 years. She also chaired the Commission on Nursing and the second Commission on the Status of Women. x.com/ThisDayIrish/status/11… #WomensHistoryMonth
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12 Mar 2020
Delia Larkin was a co-founder of the IWWU. She represented the union at the mass rally for women’s suffrage in Dublin. During the 1913 Lockout, she took charge of the programme in Liberty Hall to feed ITGWU members and their families. x.com/ICTU_Youth/status/9608… #WomensHistoryMonth
10 Mar 2020
Louie Bennett was a trade unionist who co-founded the Irish Women’s Suffrage Federation in 1911. She was an honorary secretary of the Irish Women’s Workers’ Union in 1918, gaining many wins for their members. #WomensHistoryMonth
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8 Mar 2020
“I was elected by the women of Ireland who, instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.” - Mary Robinson, the first female President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997. She's just one of the many amazing women I'm celebrating for #IWD2020.
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6 Mar 2020
Catherine McAuley opened the House of Mercy in Dublin to care for poverty-stricken women and children in 1827. McAuley went on to found the Sisters of Mercy, and she was featured on the $5 note in Ireland. x.com/ThisDayIrish/status/11… #WomensHistoryMonth
5 Mar 2020
Dr Dorothy Stopford Price pioneered the use of the BCG vaccine in Ireland which saved countless lives from TB. She was nominated for a WHO award, and clashed with the Church when trying to set up an Anti-Tuberculosis League. x.com/IrishWomenin/status/12… #WomensHistoryMonth
4 Mar 2020
Rosie Hackett was a founding member of the @TheIWWU. In 1913, she mobilised her fellow workers to come out in solidarity with those who were locked out. Her work in the ITGWU helped create the campaign for modern working rights. x.com/ICTU_Youth/status/9608… #WomensHistoryMonth
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