#19SuffrageStories -Number 4- Leonora O’Reilly

#19SuffrageStories -Number 4- Leonora O’Reilly

Leonora O’Reilly was born in 1870 New York City to Irish immigrants that had come to America to escape An Gorta Mor, or the Great Hunger. Leonora’s class makes her stand out from the other Irish American Suffragists that we have talked about so far. Born...
#19SuffrageStories – Number 3 – Vida Milholland

#19SuffrageStories – Number 3 – Vida Milholland

We could not talk about Inez Milholland without also talking about her sister, career singer Vida Milholland. If you missed yesterday’s post about suffragist Inez Milholland, you are going to want to check it out as it provides some nice context to...
#19SuffrageStories – Number 1 – Lucy Burns

#19SuffrageStories – Number 1 – Lucy Burns

We are going to start the #19SuffrageStories with a well-known figure in the Suffrage Movement, Lucy Burns!   Lucy was born in 1879 to an Irish Catholic family in Brooklyn, New York. A well-educated student of language...
Counting Down to the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment!

Counting Down to the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment!

For the month of August, the Maine Irish Heritage Center will be joining the Smithsonian, US National Archives, the Library of Congress and museums and libraries across the country to examine the fight for Suffrage. Many Irish American women played a role in the...