Awesome Stuff Women Did

Because women have done more in the past 10,000 years than just pop out babies and make sandwiches.

DISCLAIMER: We make no claim that all women featured here are saints. They did awesome stuff; the women themselves might not have been. Keep that in mind before sending angry notes.

Organized the locals of Donegal in protest against evictions during the “Land Wars”. Influenced poet William Butler Yeats to become involved with Irish nationalism, and helped him found the National Literary Society of London. In Paris, published a nationalist newsletter called “L’Irelande Libre.” Traveled to the US, Scotland, and England raise funds for the movement. Co-founded the Transvaal Committee, which supported the Afrikaners in the Boer War, and Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Erin), a revolutionary women’s society, and still found time to star on stage in Yeats play, “Cathleen ní Houlihan,” which Yeats had written for her. Worked with the Red Cross in France during WWI. Was interned at Holloway Jail for six months for her part in the anti-conscription movement. along with Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Kathleen Clarke, Countess Markievicz and others. After she was released, she worked for the White Cross for relief of Irish victims during the War of Independence. Along with Charlotte Depard founded the Women’s Prisoners Defense League to help Republican prisoners and their families. Worked for the Women’s Prisoners Defense League, which mobilized again in defense of Republican prisoners in 1935, for the rest of her life. Her son, Seán, was one of the founders of Amnesty International, and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974. Is called Ireland’s Joan of Arc. (Maud Gonne MacBride)

Organized the locals of Donegal in protest against evictions during the “Land Wars”. Influenced poet William Butler Yeats to become involved with Irish nationalism, and helped him found the National Literary Society of London. In Paris, published a nationalist newsletter called “L’Irelande Libre.” Traveled to the US, Scotland, and England raise funds for the movement. Co-founded the Transvaal Committee, which supported the Afrikaners in the Boer War, and Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Erin), a revolutionary women’s society, and still found time to star on stage in Yeats play, “Cathleen ní Houlihan,” which Yeats had written for her. Worked with the Red Cross in France during WWI. Was interned at Holloway Jail for six months for her part in the anti-conscription movement. along with Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Kathleen Clarke, Countess Markievicz and others. After she was released, she worked for the White Cross for relief of Irish victims during the War of Independence. Along with Charlotte Depard founded the Women’s Prisoners Defense League to help Republican prisoners and their families. Worked for the Women’s Prisoners Defense League, which mobilized again in defense of Republican prisoners in 1935, for the rest of her life. Her son, Seán, was one of the founders of Amnesty International, and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974. Is called Ireland’s Joan of Arc. (Maud Gonne MacBride)

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