Lucy Keaveney

Having retired from Castleknock Educate Together N.S in 2010, Lucy visited Lissadell House and was very impressed with the exhibition to Countess Markievicz on display there. Struck by the fact that most of the debating schools in Ireland were set up to to commemorate men, she was inspired.

She put a proposal to establish the Countess Markievicz School to fellow students in Equality Studies in UCD and received an enthusiastic response. Lucy formed a committee together with Niamh Murray, Brigid Bergin Mooney & Aine Carroll. And so, the Markievicz School was founded in 2011 in the Teachers Club in Dublin's Parnell Square. It has gone from strength to strength since. Lucy decided to leave the committee to a much younger generation of women and is honoured to to remain in close contact with the school by becoming its patron.