Courageous women
Courageous Women by Mary Moynihan is a film inspired by a creative re-imagining of moments from
the lives of Constance Markievicz (1868-1927), an Irish politician, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette
and socialist; Helena Moloney (1884-1967), a member of Inghinidhe na hÉireann and the Irish Citizen
Army who was stationed at City Hall Garrison during the Easter Rising of 1916; Margaret Skinnider
(1893-1971), a revolutionary feminist and maths teacher who came to Dublin from Scotland at the age
of 23 to take part in the Easter Rising and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946), a radical activist,
feminist, pacifist and human rights campaigner and one of Ireland’s foremost suffragettes. Hanna was
one of the original founders of the militant Irish Women’s Franchise League set up in 1908 with
Margaret Cousins to fight for emancipation and a woman’s right to vote.
The film is written by Mary Moynihan and is inspired by and incorporates original writings from
Constance Markievicz; poetry excerpts by Eva Gore Booth; original testimony including an adaptation
from Doing My Bit for Ireland by Margaret Skinnider; original testimony from Helena Molony and
writings by Hanna Sheehy Skeffington. Produced by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality.
