Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Ireland’s best-known suffragette, was a Munster woman, although most of her adult life was lived in Dublin, writes Margaret Ward.

The granddaughter of one of Ireland's foremost suffragettes has said it is women's place to take direct action for equality.

A bronze statue of a suffragette has been unveiled in Leicester 100 years on from women winning the right to vote.

Set in pre-WWI London, Suffragette (12A) is a stirring account of the campaign for women’s voting rights which was led by Emmeline Pankhurst (a very brief cameo from Meryl Streep).