MUSIC: Singing for their supper

A brief history of the evolution of Chamber Choir Ireland. By Stuart Kinsella ‘Without music, life would be a mistake,’ runs Nietzsche’s pithy aphorism from his 1899 Twilight of the […]

LEGAL: Ladies of the law

The pioneering women in Irish legal history. By John Lucey In the 1880s women could study law in Ireland but were unable to practise. By the following decade the first […]

A century of first female milestones in Irish legal history

1890   Letitia Walkington and Frances Gray conferred Doctor of Laws (LLD). 1905   Margaret Byers (née Morrow) and Henrietta White awarded honorary LLDs. 1920   Frances Kyle and Averil Deverell first students […]

Women solicitors admitted to the Law Society of Ireland and the Law Society of Northern Ireland 1923–30

1923:   Mary D. Heron Helena M. Early 1924:   Dorothea M. Browne 1925:   Maureen McDowell 1927:   Eleanore D. Scholefield Annie J. Smyth Margaret A. Fisher Kathleen Donaghy 1928:   Eugénie R. Houston […]

Irishwomen called to the bar, 1921–30

1921:   Frances Christina Kyle (Dublin and Belfast) Averil Katherine Slatter Deverell (Dublin) 1923:   Mary Dillon-Leetch (Dublin) Ida May Coffin Duncan (London) Edith Jane Douglas Morrison (London) 1924:   Sydney Alice Malone […]