Bringing the stories of 23 remarkable Irish women to life

Filmmaker Darina Clancy, in collaboration with Irish Examiner columnist Clodagh Finn, has made a TV documentary about 23 formidable women who changed people's lives in Ireland and abroad

Ireland's first female civil servant Thekla Beere, whose work resulted in the lifting of the marriage bar.

As a child in the 80s, my grandmother and I were walking the 200m or so from her home to the polling station when she stopped half way on the low wall on the mall for a rest. As we chatted, she made it very clear to me that women had fought hard for this right to be heard and that, if I, as a woman, did not use my vote, she would come back and haunt me.

One of the women who fought for that vote was born in the same town where my grandmother cast hers. Anna Haslam, after campaigning for women’s rights for years, was escorted by younger women to the polling station the very first time women were allowed to vote.