The Waterford naval officer who became first governor of New Zealand
William Hobson was implicated in the transfer of land from Maori to profit settlers
Thomas Heazle Parke, the first Irishman to cross Africa
Surgeon to the British army became a celebrity after bloody expedition to rescue governor
The ‘Irish Tinker Lady’ whose songs captivated London
Margaret Barry shared a billing at the 1965 Newport Festival with Joan Baez and Bob Dylan
Annie Besant, the first woman to endorse birth control
London-Irishwoman was a trade unionist, socialist, and later an Indian nationalist
Josephine Hart, writer and ‘heroine’ who inspired Herstory
Hart harnessed early tragedy to become a publisher, writer, poetry promoter and television producer
The pioneering Irishwomen who made exciting Space discoveries
Space Week: Remarkable women strategically navigated a male-dominated field
The Irish woman who became ‘prisoner’ of a Russian princess
Martha Wilmot published the memoirs of Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova
Kay McNulty, the Irish ‘mother of computer programming’
While raising seven children, she continued, uncredited, to programme computers her husband developed
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