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 is delighted to present this exciting collaboration between Mná100, Houses of the Oireachtas and the National Print Museum This second work shop in the series took place on the 25th October 2022 to mark the centenary of Universal Suffrage On the 25th October 1922 the Irish Free State Constitution came into effect It was one of the steps...

Mná100 hosted an 'In Conversation' with Steve Woods Director of 'Estella' Director Steve Woods In the late 1990s, Steve Woods, script 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...

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) 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 Europe,...

To mark the centenary on 16th June of the ‘Pact Election’ of 1922, Mná 100 partnered with the National Print Museum to run this innovative pilot printing workshop Leading up to the election, on 20th May 1922, a last minute electoral pact was signed This proposed a national coalition panel for the third Dáil Éireann, composed of Pro and...

Mná100 Podcast Episode 4 This podcast examines events of 100 years ago and women’s participation in seeking peace - from chairing the Peace Committee meetings in May to delegations organised in June and July 1922 as hostilities in the Civil War escalated It explores the historic background to those delegations, profiling some of the...