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On Saturday 23rd April 2016, 180 people attended a centenary Markievicz School in Liberty Hall Theatre, a century after Constance Markievicz & the women of 1916 left Liberty Hall to take part in the Easter Rising. We hosted live performances including, Flames Not Flowers by the women of St. Michael's Family Resource Centre, Inchicore and Janice Igoe performed The Ballad of Rosie Hackett, which was composed by her uncle, Thomas Igoe. |
Opening address: Susan McKay
https://vimeo.com/164594829
Susan McKay is one of Ireland’s best-known journalists and authors. Her books include Sophia’s Story - the biography of a courageous survivor of child abuse, Bear in Mind These Dead - an exploration of the impact of the NI conflict on the families of those who were killed, Northern Protestants - An Unsettled People, and Without Fear - A History of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (with a preface by Mary Robinson). She was one of the founders of the Belfast Rape Crisis Centre in the 1980s and was CEO of the National Women’s Council from 2009-2012. She has written about feminist issues in Ireland and in a global context. She is from Derry.
Susan McKay is one of Ireland’s best-known journalists and authors. Her books include Sophia’s Story - the biography of a courageous survivor of child abuse, Bear in Mind These Dead - an exploration of the impact of the NI conflict on the families of those who were killed, Northern Protestants - An Unsettled People, and Without Fear - A History of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (with a preface by Mary Robinson). She was one of the founders of the Belfast Rape Crisis Centre in the 1980s and was CEO of the National Women’s Council from 2009-2012. She has written about feminist issues in Ireland and in a global context. She is from Derry.
Women & 1916: Writers & Relatives Respond
Chair: Cathleen O'Neill, Kilbarrack CDP
John Gray, nephew of Rosie Hackett
https://vimeo.com/164629713
John was born and reared in Fairview Strand, Dublin 3 and was educated at St Josephs C.B.S Fairview. In the early 1970s he moved to Marino and has lived there since. He worked for some years in the motor trade before joining Dublin Airport where he worked for over 30 years and took early retirement a number of years ago. John has two adult sons, Barry and David and a grand daughter, Tillie. John is active in his local area where he does voluntary work in St Francis Hospice Raheny. In September 2013, the first name over the River Liffey was named after his Grandaunt, Rosie Hackett.
Lucille Redmond, granddaughter of Muriel Gifford
https://vimeo.com/164682511
Lucille Redmond’s grandfather was Thomas MacDonagh, and her grandmother was Muriel MacDonagh, a daughter of the Gifford family whose sisters included Grace Gifford, who married Joseph Plunkett; the journalist John Brennan; and the socialist Nellie Gifford who served alongside Madame Markievicz from the days of Inghinidhe na h-Éireann to the Citizen Army and the Stephen’s Green and College of Surgeons posts in 1916. Lucille’s mother’s godparents were Helena Molony and PH Pearse; her uncle’s godfather was Joseph Plunkett. She will speak about the Giffords, but especially about Nellie Gifford, who founded the National Museum’s 1916 collection. Lucille is working on a book about her grandparents and their circle.
Donna Cooney, great grandniece of Elizabeth O' Farrell
https://vimeo.com/164722237
Donna Cooney is a great grand niece of Elizabeth O'Farrell. Donna is an artist and environmentalist. She is a member of the Green Party and was one of its councillors for Dublin City in the 1990s.
Nell Regan, author, Helena Molony, A Radical Life (Arlen House, 2016)
https://vimeo.com/164646121
Nell Regan studied history at UCD and has an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster Univeristy. Her non fiction publications include the first biography of Helena Molony in Female Activists, Irish Women and Change, and the Field Day Anthology Vol. 4. In 2006 she was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Awards and she received the 2007 Dublin City Council Bursary for Literature. Preparing for Spring was her debut collection and was nominated for the 2007 Glen Dimplex New Writing Awards. In 2011 she published a second book of poetry in conjunction with artist Monica Boyle, called Bound for Home. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2011 and attended the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa. She launched her third book, One Still Thing, in November 2014.
Marie Mulholland, author, The Politics & Relationships of Dr. Kathleen Lynn (Woodfield Press, 2002) https://vimeo.com/164692543
Marie Mulholland is a feminist activist from Belfast with a love of Irishwomen's and feminist history. Her book, "The Politics and Relationships of Kathleen Lynn" was published in 2002 and was the first biographical study of the personal and political life of Dr Kathleen Lynn. Marie is the co-ordinator of a women's domestic violence project in West Cork where she now lives.
Niamh Murray, author, Countess Markievicz & the Women of the Revolution (forthcoming)
https://vimeo.com/165131430
Niamh Murray works as a teacher in a DEIS school in Dublin. In 2011, whilst a part time student of Equality Studies in UCD, she co-founded the Countess Markievicz School and is its current chairperson. She has written a forthcoming book, Countess Markievicz & the Women of the Revolution.
John Gray, nephew of Rosie Hackett
https://vimeo.com/164629713
John was born and reared in Fairview Strand, Dublin 3 and was educated at St Josephs C.B.S Fairview. In the early 1970s he moved to Marino and has lived there since. He worked for some years in the motor trade before joining Dublin Airport where he worked for over 30 years and took early retirement a number of years ago. John has two adult sons, Barry and David and a grand daughter, Tillie. John is active in his local area where he does voluntary work in St Francis Hospice Raheny. In September 2013, the first name over the River Liffey was named after his Grandaunt, Rosie Hackett.
Lucille Redmond, granddaughter of Muriel Gifford
https://vimeo.com/164682511
Lucille Redmond’s grandfather was Thomas MacDonagh, and her grandmother was Muriel MacDonagh, a daughter of the Gifford family whose sisters included Grace Gifford, who married Joseph Plunkett; the journalist John Brennan; and the socialist Nellie Gifford who served alongside Madame Markievicz from the days of Inghinidhe na h-Éireann to the Citizen Army and the Stephen’s Green and College of Surgeons posts in 1916. Lucille’s mother’s godparents were Helena Molony and PH Pearse; her uncle’s godfather was Joseph Plunkett. She will speak about the Giffords, but especially about Nellie Gifford, who founded the National Museum’s 1916 collection. Lucille is working on a book about her grandparents and their circle.
Donna Cooney, great grandniece of Elizabeth O' Farrell
https://vimeo.com/164722237
Donna Cooney is a great grand niece of Elizabeth O'Farrell. Donna is an artist and environmentalist. She is a member of the Green Party and was one of its councillors for Dublin City in the 1990s.
Nell Regan, author, Helena Molony, A Radical Life (Arlen House, 2016)
https://vimeo.com/164646121
Nell Regan studied history at UCD and has an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster Univeristy. Her non fiction publications include the first biography of Helena Molony in Female Activists, Irish Women and Change, and the Field Day Anthology Vol. 4. In 2006 she was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Awards and she received the 2007 Dublin City Council Bursary for Literature. Preparing for Spring was her debut collection and was nominated for the 2007 Glen Dimplex New Writing Awards. In 2011 she published a second book of poetry in conjunction with artist Monica Boyle, called Bound for Home. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2011 and attended the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa. She launched her third book, One Still Thing, in November 2014.
Marie Mulholland, author, The Politics & Relationships of Dr. Kathleen Lynn (Woodfield Press, 2002) https://vimeo.com/164692543
Marie Mulholland is a feminist activist from Belfast with a love of Irishwomen's and feminist history. Her book, "The Politics and Relationships of Kathleen Lynn" was published in 2002 and was the first biographical study of the personal and political life of Dr Kathleen Lynn. Marie is the co-ordinator of a women's domestic violence project in West Cork where she now lives.
Niamh Murray, author, Countess Markievicz & the Women of the Revolution (forthcoming)
https://vimeo.com/165131430
Niamh Murray works as a teacher in a DEIS school in Dublin. In 2011, whilst a part time student of Equality Studies in UCD, she co-founded the Countess Markievicz School and is its current chairperson. She has written a forthcoming book, Countess Markievicz & the Women of the Revolution.
Women & Labour
Chair Alice Mary Higgins, NWCI
Éilish O’Carroll, Mrs. Brown's Boys
https://vimeo.com/165887896
Eilish O'Carroll would be best know as Winnie McGoogan in the multi award winning sitcom Mrs. Brown's Boys, written by her brother Brendan. Eilish also wrote her own one woman play called 'Live Love Laugh, which toured successfully throughout Ireland in 2015. Eilish is the ninth child born to the late Maureen O'Carroll, the first female Labour TD to be elected in 1954. She is delighted and proud to be here today to talk about her Mother, The Woman, and the Politician.
Louise Bayliss, SPARK
https://vimeo.com/165795039
Louise is a Masters graduate of the Equality Studies Programme, 2011. Prior to that she worked as a psychiatric patient advocate where she lost her job as a result of revealing the dire treatment of women in Grangegorman, 2011.She is a founding member of SPARK (Single Parents Acting for the Rights of Kids) which was set up in December 2011. SPARK has been at the center of fighting against the reforms to the One Parent Family Payment. The continuous campaigning by SPARK has resulted in victories, including concessions for lone parents who were also carers. Louise is a regular contributor to TV and radio programmes and has presented oral submissions to Joint Oireachtas Committees on behalf of SPARK and the Equality Budgeting Campaign.
Ursula Barry, Women’s Studies, UCD
https://vimeo.com/165804253
Ursula Barry is a researcher and Senior Lecturer with the School of Social Justice, University College Dublin, specialising in gender, equality and public policy. Author of a wide range of research reports and articles on economic and social policy, gender and equality issues in Ireland and EU. Member of policy development and advisory committees within the NGO and public sectors. Irish representative on the EU Expert Network on Gender Equality and Employment (ENEGE.eu). Editor of, and contributor to ‘Where are we now – new feminist perspectives on women in contemporary Ireland’ TASC Series. Joint author with Pauline Conroy of Ch. 10 Ireland in Crisis 2008-2012: Women, Austerity and Inequality and Discourses on Foetal Rights and Women’s Embodiment in Abortion Papers Ireland Volume 2 (eds) Aideen Quilty, Catherine Conlon and Sinead Kennedy, Cork University Press 2015.
Éilish O’Carroll, Mrs. Brown's Boys
https://vimeo.com/165887896
Eilish O'Carroll would be best know as Winnie McGoogan in the multi award winning sitcom Mrs. Brown's Boys, written by her brother Brendan. Eilish also wrote her own one woman play called 'Live Love Laugh, which toured successfully throughout Ireland in 2015. Eilish is the ninth child born to the late Maureen O'Carroll, the first female Labour TD to be elected in 1954. She is delighted and proud to be here today to talk about her Mother, The Woman, and the Politician.
Louise Bayliss, SPARK
https://vimeo.com/165795039
Louise is a Masters graduate of the Equality Studies Programme, 2011. Prior to that she worked as a psychiatric patient advocate where she lost her job as a result of revealing the dire treatment of women in Grangegorman, 2011.She is a founding member of SPARK (Single Parents Acting for the Rights of Kids) which was set up in December 2011. SPARK has been at the center of fighting against the reforms to the One Parent Family Payment. The continuous campaigning by SPARK has resulted in victories, including concessions for lone parents who were also carers. Louise is a regular contributor to TV and radio programmes and has presented oral submissions to Joint Oireachtas Committees on behalf of SPARK and the Equality Budgeting Campaign.
Ursula Barry, Women’s Studies, UCD
https://vimeo.com/165804253
Ursula Barry is a researcher and Senior Lecturer with the School of Social Justice, University College Dublin, specialising in gender, equality and public policy. Author of a wide range of research reports and articles on economic and social policy, gender and equality issues in Ireland and EU. Member of policy development and advisory committees within the NGO and public sectors. Irish representative on the EU Expert Network on Gender Equality and Employment (ENEGE.eu). Editor of, and contributor to ‘Where are we now – new feminist perspectives on women in contemporary Ireland’ TASC Series. Joint author with Pauline Conroy of Ch. 10 Ireland in Crisis 2008-2012: Women, Austerity and Inequality and Discourses on Foetal Rights and Women’s Embodiment in Abortion Papers Ireland Volume 2 (eds) Aideen Quilty, Catherine Conlon and Sinead Kennedy, Cork University Press 2015.
