Centenary Timeline Nóiméad Céad Bliain

August 2023

Elections 1923

A general election was called for the Fourth Dáil Éireann on the 27th August 1923 A call to dump arms had brought an uneasy peace to the Irish Civil War Five women were elected however only one took her seat, Margaret Collins-O'Driscoll She was the sister of Michael Collins who had been killed in an ambush the previous August and was pro-treaty  The...

Workshop

June 2023

Captivity – Civil War
Mná100 Podcast Episode 5

The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD has launched the fifth episode in the Mná 100 podcast series, titled Captivity – Civil War, as part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2012-2023  This episode continues the story of women imprisoned, following the photo-essay ‘Inside Out’ which...

Podcasts

May 2023

Irish Civil War
Roundtable

Mná100 is delighted to partner with the Treaty Generation Descendants Group for this roundtable discussion, reflecting on the impact and legacy of the Civil War, with a special focus on the experiences of women during this time  Participants at this Roundtable are: Nora Owen, former Minister of Justice 1994-1997, and the 7th Female Cabinet...

Film

April 2023

Inside Out

In this photo essay, Mná100 focuses on mass imprisonment of women in Mountjoy Prison, Kilmainham Gaol and the North Dublin Union Mná100 worked in partnership with City of Dublin ETB teachers and students from the Education Centre Mountjoy to create this photo-essay focusing on the experiences of the imprisoned women Using images of artefacts...

Photo Essay

February 2023

Margaret Cousins
of Ireland and India

Mná100 in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs Irish Embassy India, have created a short film on the life of Roscommon woman Margaret Cousins Cousins worked for suffrage, the rights of women, and gender equality both in Ireland and in India This film looks at her legacy in Ireland and India to this day Filmed on location in...

Film

January 2023

Mary M. and Sexual Violence: Ordinary Voices
and the Irish Civil War

Mná100 marks events of January 1923 during the Irish Civil War with a short film presented by Professor Lindsey Earner Byrne In this film Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Professor of Gender at University College Cork, looks at the topic of violence against women, during the dark days of the Irish Civil War In this specially created centenary short film, she focuses...

Film

October 2022

Universal Suffrage

Mná100 is delighted to present this exciting collaboration between Mná100, Houses of the Oireachtas and the National Print Museum This second work shop in the series took place on the 25th October 2022 to mark the centenary of Universal Suffrage On the 25th October 1922 the Irish Free State Constitution came into effect It was one of the steps...

Workshop

September 2022

Estella Solomons
‘The spirit that drove her brush’

Mná100 hosted an 'In Conversation' with Steve Woods Director of 'Estella' Director Steve Woods In the late 1990s, Steve Woods, script writer, director, producer, lecturer at the National Film School IADT Dún Laoghaire, Ireland was browsing in the National Gallery of Ireland’s (NGI) Bookshop on Dublin’s Merrion Square...

Film