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As we remember the milestones of 1918, let us redouble our efforts towards more inclusive electoral and political participation

Vote 100: A signatory of the 1866 suffrage petition that kickstarted a movement

The ending of the ban on women voting and standing for election is being celebrated across the country

After decades of campaigning by the suffragettes, a 1918 Act gave a limited cohort of women the right to vote in parliamentary elections

Vote 100: The Dubliner was among a small cohort of working-class suffragettes

Vote 100: An advocate for women’s voices in politics, and fair working conditions

Vote 100: Countess was an unrelenting suffragette and first woman member of parliament at Westminster

Vote 100: The Lissadell sister helped pit-brow workers, women acrobats, barmaids and Oxford Circus flower sellers, among others

Of the 4,575 Dáil seats available over 30 elections since 1922, women held just 274 of them

Vote 100: A century on from 1918, the Eighth Amendment referendum was most momentous vote for Irish women

Vote 100: Activist and organiser attributed her belief in equality to her Quaker upbringing

Vote 100: Nice-born teacher who was at GPO during 1916 Easter Rising also founded Scoil Bhríde on St Stephen’s Green

Vote 100: Irish Women Workers’ Union executive also campaigned for nuclear disarmament

Vote 100: Progressive teacher and fervent separatist became one of the leading women in Irish politics

Vote 100: The life-long trade unionist advocated for improved conditions and representation for women

Vote 100: She and her husband took each other’s surnames as a show of equality

Vote 100: Founder of St Ultan’s children’s hospital looked for political and pragmatic solutions to deprivation

Vote 100: The suffragette activist campaigned throughout her life for equality and peace

Vote 100: Women’s Freedom League president steered path of ‘constitutional militancy’

Vote 100: Galway supporter of education and nursing left Ireland after father’s death