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She has an entry at the dib. In February 1912 she went to Belfast with Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (qv) to heckle Winston Churchill.

Irish suffragist organiser and activist Meg Connery (Margaret Knight), circa 1920s

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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.

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.

Toy, Ernest, 1882?- Australian violinist. He was born at Ballarat, Victoria, and at the early age of ten was sent to London, where he was enrolled as a student of the Royal Academy of Music, won several competitions, and was a gold medallist of the London Society of Arts. He was created a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, London at a very young age. He then toured England and the Continent and in 1899, at the age of seventeen, was the solo violinist of the Imperial Institute, Prince of Wales Club, and Exeter Hall. He toured New Zealand in 1899 and again performed in New Zealand in 1914. Source: natlib.govt.nz/records/22404916

Very pretty girl, elegantly dressed, once again no name, such a shame, I have been writing on the backs of my old paper pictures to prevent this happening in my family. Please do the same EVERYONE.