Mná100 is delighted to partner with the Treaty Generation Descendants Group for this roundtable discussion, reflecting on the impact and legacy of the Civil War, with a special focus on the experiences of women during this time  Participants at this Roundtable are: Nora Owen, former Minister of Justice 1994-1997, and the 7th Female Cabinet...

In this photo essay, Mná100 focuses on mass imprisonment of women in Mountjoy Prison, Kilmainham Gaol and the North Dublin Union Mná100 worked in partnership with City of Dublin ETB teachers and students from the Education Centre Mountjoy to create this photo-essay focusing on the experiences of the imprisoned women Using images of artefacts...

Executive of Cumannna mBan February 1922 This photo shows 23 members of the Executive of Cumman na mBan While we know who most of these women are, there are 4 who remain unidentified Can you help us identify them At a special convention on 5 February 1922, Cumann na mBan rejected the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty with Great Britain and...

Mná100 in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs Irish Embassy India, have created a short film on the life of Roscommon woman Margaret Cousins Cousins worked for suffrage, the rights of women, and gender equality both in Ireland and in India This film looks at her legacy in Ireland and India to this day Filmed on location in...

Mná100 marks events of January 1923 during the Irish Civil War with a short film presented by Professor Lindsey Earner Byrne In this film Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Professor of Gender at University College Cork, looks at the topic of violence against women, during the dark days of the Irish Civil War In this specially created centenary short film, she focuses...

Mná100 - In Conversation with Steve Woods Director Steve Woods In the late 1990s, Steve Woods, film writer, director, producer, lecturer at the National Film School IADT Dún Laoghaire, Ireland was browsing in the National Gallery of Ireland’s (NGI) Bookshop on Dublin’s Merrion Square when he came across an entry that...

August 2022 marks the centenary of formation of The Women Prisoners' Defence League according to a document found in 47 Parnell Square sometime in the 1970s, now in a private collection: The Women’s Prisoners’ Defence League was started in August 1922, informally outside the gates of Mountjoy Jail, Dublin, by the mothers, wives and sisters of...

Ellen F O’Connor (1874-1943) Ellen was a 46 year old, American, a Teacher who taught at the Prince School and later at West Roxbury High, Boston A singer who took part in church musicals and other recitals She gave an annual lecture on Irish Art at Boston Library She availed of a sabbatical from school to undertake travel, and she visited...