Wild Irish Women Archive
Wild Irish Women | Mrs. Joe Plunkett
GRACE “Now as the dawn is breaking, sure my heart is breaking, too. / As they…
Wild Irish Women | Maeve Brennan: Talk of The Town
Maeve Brennan (1917-1993), the Dublin-born writer has been described as “Irish literature’s best kept secret,”…
Kate Gleason: A Century Ahead of Her Time
Even in recent decades, women engineers have at times felt like they’re trying to make…
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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 […]
Witch or Healer? Biddy Early (1798 – 1872)
Healer, Herbalist, Clairvoyant… or Witch? Biddy Early was a true “alpha female” writes Rosemary Rogers in her latest exploration of “Wild Irish Women.” ℘℘℘ For as long as anyone can remember, […]
The Mother of Orphans
“She was a mother to the motherless; she was a friend to those who had no friends; she had wisdom greater than schools can teach; we will not let her […]
Constance Gore-Booth: The Rebel Countess
Constance Gore-Booth may have married a Polish Count, but in her heart she was an Irish revolutionary who had an active part in the Easter Rising and in the formation […]