Seanad Éireann first met #OTD in 1922. Only 4 women were appointed/elected to the first Seanad:

Jennie Wyse Power, Ellen Cuffe - Dowager Countess of Desart, Alice Stopford Green and Eileen Costello (📷 L-R)

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All 📷 public domain on Wikimedia Commons

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_1922_Seanad#:~:text=The%201922%20Seanad%20is%20the,session%20from%201922%20to%201936.

Nell Ryan, nationalist, 1916 prisoner, 1st woman elected to Wexford county council, died #OTD in 1959. There was a Cumann na mBan guard of honour at her funeral. "Friend and confidant of pretty much all the republican leaders" but didn't have her own Wikipedia page until we created it in 2021

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📷 fair use on Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Ryan

Educator and nationalist Máirín Beaumont was born in Co Antrim #OTD in 1894. She stored arms for 1916 but didn't take part. Aided Dr Kathleen Lynn in 1918 flu epidemic. She was on exec of CnamB and later Irish Countrywomen's Assoc. She was involved in setting up An Grianán college for adult learning.

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📷 executive of Cumann na mBan in 1922. Máirín is 2nd row, 3rd from right. UCD/Sighle Humphreys archives. No 📷 on her Wikipedia article.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ir%C3%ADn_Beaumont

Suffragette Dolly Molony, "the bright and bonny and resourceful little Irish girl, who rang the bell at Mr. Churchill's historic Dundee election, when the women decided he should not be allowed to speak", died #OTD in 1921 aged just 41.

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📷 1908 newspaper clipping of her arrest, public domain on Wikimedia Commons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Molony

Aviator Mary Bailey was born the Hon Mary Westenra #OTD in 1890 in Rossmore Castle, Co Monaghan. She held many firsts and records, and '"personally guided a plane from England to the nether tip of South Africa and back". She was probably the first woman to take aerial photos of archaeological sites in Egypt. She sat on Women's Engineering Society council and was made a DBE in 1930.

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📷 in 1911, public domain on Wikimedia Commons

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bailey_(aviator)

Easter widow and Waterford's 1st female TD, Caitlín Brugha died #OTD in 1959. She was one of 5 women elected to Dáil Éireann in 1923 but like other Sinn Féin TDs, she didn't take her seat. She was re-elected in June 1927, campaigning on welfare of republican prisoners, but she didn’t stand in a second election that year.

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📷 public domain on Wikimedia Commons

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitl%C3%ADn_Brugha

US labour activist, union organiser and Corkwoman Mary Harris, aka Mother Jones, died #OTD in 1930. She co-founded Industrial Workers of the World and campaigned for ban on child labour. She wasn't a fan of women's suffrage though 🤷‍♂️

Her words are never not timely:
"Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living".

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📷 Plaque on Liberty Hall, Dublin, by the Wild Gees CC-BY-SA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Jones

Suffrage star Anna Haslam died #OTD in 1922 aged 93. She and husband Thomas were Quakers who founded the Dublin Women’s Suffrage Association in 1874. She lived long enough to see universal suffrage in Ireland. She should be better known, as familiar as Millicent Fawcett is in UK. She and Thomas are commemorated with a bench in St Stephen's Green, Dublin.
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📷 the Wild Gees CC-BY-SA; portrait by Sarah Cecilia Harrison, public domain.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Haslam