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# women in history

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They were called 'dirty Irish bloodhounds'. Life as an emigrant servant in the early 20th Century
Catherine Healy
History: As our election looms, spare a thought for the women of 1920
Margaret Ward
Was 'Typhoid Mary' the victim of an unjust system or a menace to public health?
Ella Hassett
The incredible story of an Irish woman who lived as a man – and fought as an American soldier
Ella Hassett
Alice Perry: The first female Engineering graduate in Ireland
Ella Hassett
The Tipperary anthropologist nicknamed 'grandmother' by Indigenous Australians
Ella Hassett
This Galway woman became the first accredited female war correspondent
Ella Hassett
Extract: The passionate and inspirational women of the Irish Revolution – in photos
Elizabeth Gillis