Tag Archives: International Women’s Day


For the day that’s in it.

The tale of Margaret Kehoe, fatally injured on April 24th, 1916, while helping the wounded during that day’s rising effort.

Jane Lawrenson writes:

The video was produced by bigOmedia for the Ireland2016 team. It was directed by Kate Dolan and had an almost all female creative team working on it. It was made for International Women’s Day and for the launch of the 1916 Women’s programme.

Olga Wehry [1916] and Amy DeBhrún [2016] are the featuring actors. The video focuses on the differences and similarities between two women 100 years apart. It honours the women of 1916 while celebrating the women who are creating the Ireland of tomorrow.

Thanks Sinéad McCarthy

Women of Ireland 1916|2016

Big O Media

Earlier: Defiant Women


Plan Ireland

Happy International Women’s Day.

Members of the Ireland Women’s rugby side who play France TONIGHT for the Grand Slam, from left: Niamh Kavanagh, Alison Miller, Sophie Spence and Larissa Muldoon.

The team are backing Plan Ireland’’s “Raise your Hand” campaign which is urging the world donor community to make girls’ education a top priority.

Plan Ireland

Picture Jason Clarke

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Ahead of International Women’s Day tomorrow, Minister for Social Protecton Joan Burton (centre) helped launched a new android app developed by Safe Ireand to help keep women and children safe from domestic violence.

Last year an iPhone version of the app, which lists refuges, care workers, etc, for women in distress, was released

At the launch outside Leinster House, Dublin, today were, from left: Senator Susan O’Keeffe, Sioban O’Brien Green, of SAFE Ireland, Jacinta Carey, Chair SAFE Ireland and Senator Ivana Bacik.

Safe Ireland

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

Sold her jewellery to feed families of the 1913 lockout.

Took part in the Easter Rising.

First woman elected to the British House of Commons,

Helped start the Abbey Theatre.

First woman in Ireland to wear trousers.

Happy International Women’s Day, Constance Markievicz.

(Portrait by Boleslaw Szankowski)