St Mary's University College, Belfast (2016)

 

Women of 1916 is a series of 20 miniature portraits of the women of the Easter Rising to complement my larger exhibition 'In This Supreme Hour'. 

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It has been well documented that the role of women during the Rising was largely overlooked on its 50th anniversary in 1966. Ireland today is a much different society.

 

The work captures women from a broad range of roles and backgrounds. Not only did the women nurse the wounded and feed the troops, they ran perilous routes between garrisons delivering instructions, and a few saw active combat. And they came from all over - Dublin, Belfast, England and France.

 

Only a selection of the portraits are shown below. All are still available for exhibition or purchase.