Wild Irish Women Archive
Lola Ridge, Poet and Anarchist
“How can you help writing about something you feel intensely?” Ireland may have more poets…
The Uncrowned Queen Of Ireland
— Well I let her bawl away, to her heart’s content Kitty O’Shea and the…
The Life And Adventures of Kit Cavanagh
How the search for her missing husband turned this Irish wife and mother into a…
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Elizabeth O’Farrell – A Fearless Woman
An Irish nurse and member of Cumann na mBan, Elizabeth O’Farrell performed nursing and courier duties, delivering dispatches and ammunition to rebels over the days of the Easter Rising. She […]
“Sure Shot Mary”
New York City police officer and detective Mary Agnes Shanley (1896-1989) was the first policewoman to use a gun in an arrest. She made over 1,000 collars in her career […]
Wild Irish Women: Dancer in a Rough Field
The extraordinary life of Kathleen Kearney Behan, 1889 – 1984. History has cast Kathleen Behan in supporting roles, reducing her to the “sister of” or “mother of” someone important. But […]
Margaret Higgins Sanger Founder of Planned Parenthood
Continuing her series on Wild Irish Women, Rosemary Rogers profiles Margaret Sanger, who devoted her life to legalizing birth control, and with the help of her sister Ethel, opened the […]