This weeks Illustrated Women in History was submitted by @karenharte to be exhibited in April 2017 at Swindon Central Library, UK. One of Ireland’s modern heroines is Mary Robinson, the first female President of Ireland. Robinson advocated for the right to the legal availability of contraception, a removal of the requirement that married women resign from …
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Grainnuile / Grainne (Ní Mháille) Ó Máille
Grainnuile / Grainne (Ní Mháille) Ó Máille was the Pirate Queen of Connacht and head of the Ó Máille Clan in Ireland in the 1500’s. As a child, Grainnuile was said to have cut off all her hair to diguise herself a boy so that she could sneak onto one of her father’s ships. Her …