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Events Mark 100 Years Since Women's Right To Vote

Events are being held to mark the 1918 Irish general election. It's 100 years since that election, a...
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3:41 PM - 14 Dec 2018



Events Mark 100 Years Since Wo...

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Events Mark 100 Years Since Women's Right To Vote

TodayFM
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3:41 PM - 14 Dec 2018



Events are being held to mark the 1918 Irish general election.

It's 100 years since that election, at which women were permitted to vote and stand in parliamentary elections.

It was also the year in which the first woman was elected to the British Parliament at Westminster.

Countess Constance Markievicz was one of the two women who stood, along with Winifred Carney.

She represented a Dublin constituency, but never took her seat at Westminster.

Instead, she joined the revolutionary first Dáil - becoming the first female Teachta Dála and the first female Minister in Western Europe.

Winifred Carney | Courtesy of Kilmainham Gaol Museum

Winifred Carney stood in a unionist division of Belfast in 1918, but was not elected.

Since 1918, over 200 women have been elected to the Dáil.

There are currently 53 women Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas.

To mark the occasion, Leinster House is holding a mock General Election 1918, based on the Dublin St Stephen's Green constituency.

While Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan is hosting a conference in the Convention Centre Dublin to celebrate the centenary.



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