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Women's National Health Association
The Women's National Health Association (WNHA) was a body set up in Ireland in 1907 with the objective of eliminating, as far as possible, the scourge of tuberculosis, and to bring about a reduction in the high infant mortality rates in Ireland. Founding The association was founded by Lady Aberdeen, wife of the Lord-Lieutenant in Ireland, Lord Aberdeen. During their second term in Ireland, from 1906 to 1915, Lady Aberdeen focused on healthcare and social well-being, subjects she had been interested in all her life. Over 170 local branches of the WNHA were formed throughout the country, initially on a County basis, and subsequently sub branches were set up in each county. Activities The work of the association began with an exhibition on health matters, which was part of the Irish International Exhibition held in Dublin in 1907. With government help, the Association established pasteurized milk depots, built hospitals, dispensaries and sanitariums and expanded its activities to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Council Of Women
The International Council of Women (ICW) is a women's rights organization working across national boundaries for the common cause of advocating human rights for women. In March and April 1888, women leaders came together in Washington, D.C., with 80 speakers and 49 delegates representing 53 women's organizations from nine countries: Canada, the United States, Ireland, India, United Kingdom, Finland, Denmark, France and Norway. Women from professional organizations, trade unions, arts groups and benevolent societies participate. National councils are affiliated to the ICW and thus make themselves heard at the international level. The ICW enjoys consultative status with the United Nations and its Permanent Representatives to ECOSOC, ILO, FAO, WHO, UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNCTAD, and UNIDO. Beginnings During a visit to Europe in 1882, American suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony discussed the idea of an international women's organization with reformers in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in which case it is known as latent tuberculosis. Around 10% of latent infections progress to active disease which, if left untreated, kill about half of those affected. Typical symptoms of active TB are chronic cough with blood-containing mucus, fever, night sweats, and weight loss. It was historically referred to as consumption due to the weight loss associated with the disease. Infection of other organs can cause a wide range of symptoms. Tuberculosis is spread from one person to the next through the air when people who have active TB in their lungs cough, spit, speak, or sneeze. People with Latent TB do not spread the disease. Active infection occurs more often in people with HIV/AIDS and in those who smoke. Diagnosis of active TB is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness Of Aberdeen And Temair
Ishbel Maria Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, ('' née'' Isabel Maria Marjoribanks; 15 March 1857 – 18 April 1939) was a British author, philanthropist, and an advocate of women's interests. As the wife of John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, she was viceregal consort of Canada from 1893 to 1898 and of Ireland from 1906 to 1915. Early life Born in London, Isabel Maria Marjoribanks was the third daughter of the 1st Baron Tweedmouth and Isabella Weir-Hogg (daughter of Sir James Weir Hogg). A sometimes "anxious" child, she had enjoyed escaping to the mansion her father had built admist the "rugged splendour of Glen Affric" in the Scottish Highlands. She received a well-rounded education in English, French, mathematics, history, and geography, and was such a good student that her teacher recommended she attend college. However, Lady Aberdeen's father shared the widely held opinion that university was no place for a woman. Instead, her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess Of Aberdeen And Temair
John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, (3 August 1847 – 7 March 1934), known as The 7th Earl of Aberdeen from 1870 to 1916, was a British politician. Born in Edinburgh, Lord Aberdeen held office in several countries, serving twice as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1886; 1905–1915) and serving from 1893 to 1898 as Governor General of Canada.Chambers Biographical Dictionary, , page 4 Early and personal life Lord Aberdeen was born in Edinburgh to George Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen, and his wife, Mary Baillie, daughter of George Baillie and sister to The 10th Earl of Haddington. He studied at the University of St Andrews and University College, Oxford. He succeeded as The 7th Earl of Aberdeen following the death of his eldest brother, George, 6th Earl of Aberdeen, in January 1870. In 1877 he married Ishbel Maria Marjoribanks (1857–1939), daughter to Sir Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Bt., M.P. (later created, in 1880, The 1st Baron Twe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the List of islands of the British Isles, second-largest island of the British Isles, the List of European islands by area, third-largest in Europe, and the List of islands by area, twentieth-largest on Earth. Geopolitically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. As of 2022, the Irish population analysis, population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million living in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the List of European islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish International Exhibition
The Irish International Exhibition (sometimes ''Dublin International'') was a world's fair held in Dublin in 1907, when all of Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom. Summary The decision to hold the exhibition was taken at the Irish Industrial Conference in April 1903, and inspired by a small exhibition in Cork (the ''Cork International Exhibition'') 5 years earlier. The 1907 exhibition was intended to improve the trade of Irish goods. The leading force behind the project was William Martin Murphy, a businessman and owner of the ''Irish Independent'', Clerys department store (Clery & Co.), the Dublin United Transport Company and several other Irish and overseas ventures. Other organisers included the Irish journalist William Francis Dennehy. The exposition ran from 4 May to 9 November 1907, , received 2.75 million visitors covered 52 acres and made a loss of about £100 000 sterling, although this was underwritten by guarantors. As well as contributions from cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Fleetwood Berry
Mary Fleetwood Berry (24 April 1865 – 25 January 1956) was an Irish suffragist who advocated for women's right to vote between 1900–1918. Berry was a member of the Connacht Women's Franchise League, and the wife of James Fleetwood Berry, Rector of St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church. She was an active member of the Women's National Health Association. Early life and education Mary Fleetwood Berry was born on 24 April 1865 in Monkstown, a suburb of Cork, Ireland, to Abraham Thomas Chatterton and Jane Chatterton of Dublin. In 1887 she married Reverend James Fleetwood Berry of Tullamore, County Offaly, with whom she had one son. Alongside her husband's profession as a minister, she was known for having a strong Evangelical Protestant identity. She was elected president of the Irish Women's Temperance Union in 1900 and 1912. She was also an active member of the Connacht Women's Franchise League, one of the most outspoken and public manifestations of women's discontent and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Moon
Florence Moon was an Irish suffragist, born in Birmingham. Early life Florence Moon was from Birmingham, where her mother was involved in suffrage work. Activism Florence Moon attended a speech by Christabel Pankhurst in 1911, and became active as a suffrage organizer in Galway. She was a founder and leader of the Connacht Women's Franchise League (C.W.F.L.). In 1914 she was part of a C.W.F.L. deputation which met Stephen Gwynn, M.P., in order to obtain his support for women teachers. She was also an active member of the Women's National Health Association. With the outbreak of the First World War, Moon and many other Galway suffragists became involved in efforts concerning the war, such as fund-raising and provisions. Personal life Florence Moon was married to Charles Moon, owner of a prestigious Galway drapery store. They had three children, Blanche, Elsa, and Charles. The couple left Galway in 1918, and lived in England thereafter. See also *Emily Anderson *Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Russell (doctor)
Dr Angela Russell MB (15 November 1893 – 2 March 1991) was an Irish physician and social reformer. Early life and family Angela Russell was born Angela Gertrude Coyne in Tralee, County Kerry on 15 November 1893. Her parents were James Aloysius, an inspector of national schools, and Kathleen Mary Coyne (née Pitt). She was the seventh of nine children, with 3 sisters and six brothers. She attended the Ursuline convent, Waterford, and Loreto College, St Stephen's Green, Dublin. She entered University College Dublin in 1915 to study medicine. In 1921 she graduated with MB, BCh, BAO, going on to complete the Diploma in Public Health (DPH) in 1928. She met Matthew Russell while studying for her DPH, he was a lecturer on the course, and they married at St Mary's church, Haddington Road, Dublin on 31 July 1924. The couple had three children, a daughter and two sons. Joan, their daughter, died in her twenties and inspired the poem ''Joan Russell'' by Patrick Kavanagh who was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Young
Edith Young (10 September 1882 – 10 February 1974), was an Irish suffragist organiser and activist. Life Edith Mary O'Connor was born on 10 September 1882 to John O'Connor, a clerk in the Four Courts, and Lizzey Morrissy in Dalkey, County Dublin. Young married Joseph Samuel Young on 25 November 1902. She was a Catholic and he was a Protestant, a mineral-water manufacturer. They married in the Church of Ireland parish church, St George's of Dublin. From then on Young lived in Galway. Suffrage activism Young was involved in various groups from her time in Galway, by 1911 publicly a member of the Irish Women's Franchise League. Her husband was an Urban District Councillor and Young worked to secure supporting resolutions for the 1911 parliamentary conciliation bill. Young's husband spoke in council against the system which allowed women to pay rates but denied them a vote in national elections while any man, rate payer or not, was entitled to one. The local solution was to end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminism In Ireland
Feminism in Ireland has played a major role in shaping the legal and social position of women in present-day Ireland. The role of women has been influenced by numerous legal changes in the second part of the 20th century, especially in the 1970s. History 1870-1910s:before independence The women's movement in what was to become the Republic of Ireland started in the second half of the 19th-century. The pioneer of the women's movement on Ireland was Anna Haslam, who in 1876 founded the pioneering Dublin Women's Suffrage Association (DSWA), which campaigned for a greater role for women in local government and public affairs, aside from being the first women's suffrage society (after the Irish Women's Suffrage Society by Isabella Tod in 1872). The DSWA was followed by the Irish Women's Franchise League (1908) and the Irish Catholic Women's Suffrage Association (1915), as well as the Irish Women's Suffrage Federation (IWSF), founded to unite scattered suffrage societies in Ireland. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organizations Established In 1907
An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution, or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose. The word is derived from the Greek word ''organon'', which means tool or instrument, musical instrument, and organ. Types There are a variety of legal types of organizations, including corporations, governments, non-governmental organizations, political organizations, international organizations, armed forces, charities, not-for-profit corporations, partnerships, cooperatives, and educational institutions, etc. A hybrid organization is a body that operates in both the public sector and the private sector simultaneously, fulfilling public duties and developing commercial market activities. A voluntary association is an organization consisting of volunteers. Such organizations may be able to operate without legal formalities, depending on jurisdiction, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
