City urged to honour its crusading daughter

CORK was urged last night to honour a pioneering Irish woman who fought her entire life for American workers’ and women’s rights.

As the country marked International Women’s Day, Cllr Ted Tynan called on Cork City Council to honour Mary Harris Jones, better known as Mother Harris, who was born in the heart of the city in 1873.

After emigrating to America, she fought for miners’ rights, championed for their wives and children, was once described as the “most dangerous woman in America” and inspired the legendary song, She’ll be coming ’round the mountain.