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Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920 -1958)
Chemist Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer who made contributions...
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Lilian Bland (1878 - 1971)
Sports Photographer and Aviator, known as ‘the flying feminist’. Lilian Bland was born in 1828 in Kent, moving to Carmoney, north of...
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Rosamund Jacob (1888 - 1960)
Writer and Activist Rosamond Jacob was born in Waterford on 13th October 1888 to lapsed Quaker parents, Lewis Jacob and Henrietta Harvey,...
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Margaret Cousins (1878 - 1954)
Political Activist and Feminist Margaret Cousins (née Gillespie) was born in Boyle, Co Roscommon, in 1878, in a household that was both...
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Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984)
Painter Lee Krasner was born on 27th October, 1908, in Brooklyn, New York, the sixth of seven children born to Russian-Jewish immigrants,...
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Catherine Walshe
Civil Engineer Catherine Walshe graduated as a civil engineer from UCC in 1949, the third female to study engineering at UCC and the...
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