Irish Women's Suffrage Society
The Irish Women's Suffrage Society was an organisation for women's suffrage, founded by Isabella Tod as the North of Ireland Women's Suffrage Society in 1872. Determined lobbying by the Society ensured the 1887 Act creating a new city-status municipal franchise for Belfast conferred the vote on persons rather than men. This was eleven years before women elsewhere Ireland gained the vote in local government elections.[1]
It changed its name to the Irish Women's Suffrage Society in 1909. It was based in Belfast but had branches in other parts of the north of Ireland.[2]
Margaret McCoubrey (1880–1955) joined the society in 1910 and became an active militant.
A suffrage society, with a greater commitment to direct action, was set up in Lisburn by Lillian Metge (1871–1954)[3] which in turned joined the Irish Women's Franchise League.[4]
See also[]
- Women's suffrage organizations
- Timeline of women's suffrage
- List of suffragists and suffragettes
References[]
- ^ Connolly, S.J.; McIntosh, Gillian (1 January 2012). "Chapter 7: Whose City? Belonging and Exclusion in the Nineteenth-Century Urban World". In Connolly, S.J. (ed.). Belfast 400: People, Place and History. Liverpool University Press. p. 256. ISBN 978-1-84631-635-7.
- ^ "Belfast suffragettes". Archived from the original on 31 July 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- ^ Toal, Ciaran (2014). "The brutes - Mrs Metge and the Lisburn Cathedral, bomb 1914". History Ireland. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- ^ Luddy, Maria. (1995). Hanna Sheehy Skeffington. Historical Association of Ireland. Dublin: Published for the Historical Association of Ireland by Dundalgan Press. ISBN 0-85221-126-0. OCLC 35110401.
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