Rallying cry for women to fight for their rights

Young women stand up and fight — that is the rousing cry of barrister and owner of Lissadell House, Constance Cassidy.

Every generation faces its own battle. For Countess Markievicz, who also claimed Lissadell as her home, that fight was for women to be given the right to vote; in 2018, it is the Eighth Amendment.

But this generation, Constance fears, does not have that same fire, a bravery and fight that was possessed by all of the 100 women who look out from the walls of an exhibition that was launched yesterday.