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In vacant or in pensive mood

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

An unsung hero

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  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:

    The IWRL was involved in a wide range of Women’s issues
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Sometimes Flickr is amazing ...
    Via Peace and Nonviolence Ireland / INNATE who writes,
    "Not very exciting to look at on the surface, this bench remembering Louie Bennett and her partner Helen Chenevix is situated in the little nook or alcove of the Garden for the Blind in St Stephen's Green, Dublin. But maybe in providing a piece of rest and quiet - and thus service to passing humanity - it is a fitting tribute to these two remarkable women. Sit awhile and ponder... "
    maps.app.goo.gl/5RCNM4QwMctU26UQ8
  • Niall McAuley said:
    At the www.dib.ie/biography/bennett-louisa-louie-a0581She is possibly best remembered for her leadership in the laundry workers' strike of 1945, during which IWWU members successfully fought for a fortnight's paid holiday.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    From irishgeneology, her birth in 1870 at Garville Ave, Rathgar
  • Niall McAuley said:
    And here death aged 86 as Louisa Bessie Bennett, Trade Union Secretary Retired.

Our girl Meg

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  • Niall McAuley said:
    She has an entry at the dib. In February 1912 she went to Belfast with Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (qv) to heckle Winston Churchill.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Irish suffragist organiser and activist Meg Connery (Margaret Knight), circa 1920s
  • Suck Diesel said:
    [https://flic.kr/p/2pmxxkP]

    Worth reading
  • John Spooner said:
    The 1911 protest mentioned in the dib was for breaking windows of the War Office in London. Votes for Women - Friday 01 December 1911:
    Mrs. Margaret Connery had broken two windows on the ground floor of She War Office. The prisoner said she came across from Ireland to protest in the strongest possible way against the Government's present attitude on the question of Woman Suffrage, and to show that Irish women were prepared to resist any form of Government, Home Rule or otherwise, which did not recognise Irish women. She was sentenced to 10s. and 10s. damages, or seven days in second division.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    THe DIB thinks she was born in 1879, but Wikipedia, which features this same photo, says 27 June 1881.

    The official birth records agree with Wikipedia.

    In the 1901 census, young Maggie Knight is alleged to be 17.

    The census gives the townland as Mahanagh, the birth record address is The Triangle, the OSI 12 " shows the only village in that townland is called The Triangle. In Streetview, some of the houses are ruins now.

    In 1909, for her marriage to John Patrick Connery, she put 25.