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Donna Gilligan

Weekly Comment:
Call for Irish Women’s Suffragette Artifacts


By Irish America
June 3, 2016

June 3, 2016 by Leave a Comment

An Irish researcher is currently undertaking a public appeal for information on surviving objects related to the Irish women suffragettes who fought for the right to vote nationally almost a hundred years ago. Donna Gilligan is a museum archaeologist and material culture historian who is compiling a research thesis on the visual and material culture of the Irish women’s … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
Call for Irish Women’s Suffragette Artifacts

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