February 2024
As Mná100 ends, in this final piece, it looks to the next generation of revolutionary women On Wednesday 25 October 2023, Dr Sinéad McCoole sat down with Catherine McGuinness to discuss her life and reflect on her mother-in-law Mairead McGuinness (née de Lappe) who had been imprisoned during the Irish Civil War You can listen to their...
February 2024
As Mná100 ends, in this final piece, it looks to the next generation of revolutionary women On Wednesday 25 October 2023, Dr Sinéad McCoole sat down with Catherine McGuinness to discuss her life and reflect on her mother-in-law Mairead McGuinness (née de Lappe) who had been imprisoned during the Irish Civil War You can listen to their...
December 2023
The act of translation is concerned with the slippages, peculiarities, and mysteries of language Particularly with poetry, we are invited into a whole new world of meaning and possibility, and that is what we hope to capture in this new edited translation Radacach! Mná agus Réabhlóid na hÉireann From its beginning, we have been led by the activist...
December 2023
In 2016 the Women on Walls campaign by Accenture in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy aimed to make women leaders visible through a series of commissioned portraits, creating a lasting legacy for Ireland Building on the success of this campaign the Royal Irish Academy Library is planning a one-day seminar to enhance the visibility of Irish women...
December 2023
On the 8th of December, students from Gaelscoil Cois Feabhail, Ballnally, County Donegal attended the National Print Museum in Dublin, to participate in the final Mná100 letterpress printing workshop In preparation for this workshop, the primary school students had been studying elections held in Ireland from 1921 to 1923 They focused on the General...
November 2023
For centuries portraiture has been used as a form of commemoration During the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023, a number of portraits of those involved in the Irish Revolution have been commissioned Mná100’s Dr Sinéad McCoole met with artist Emma Stroude to discuss her process of producing commissioned portraits Emma Stroude with her portraits of...
October 2023
Left to right: Lucy Mahony, Cara Patterson, Rachel O'Dwyer, Jenna Hayes, Chloe Hickey, Kate Nevin, Dr Sinéad McCoole, Amyleigh Norris, Sarah Fitzgerald, Grainne Maher, Millie Hewitt, Eabha Murphy, Rosie O'Reilly, Rachel Fuller, Lucy Hanrahan, Margaret O'Mahoney Workshop in Clonmel Library In May 2023 Mná100 partnered with the Tipperary Decade of...
September 2023
This podcast examines events of 100 years ago with Ireland’s membership of the League of Nations and the International Labour Organisation from 1923 onwards, with contributions from Professor Mary Daly, Francis Devine, Phillip Emmet and Thomas Emmet In this final episode, it poses the question -Is it time for Emmet's epitaph Scripted and presented by...