77 Women commemoration quilt

[1] During the Rising, around 300 women from the Irish Citizen Army and Cumann na mBan played active roles.

[5] Winifred Carney entered the GPO on O’Connell Street, armed with a Webley revolver and a typewriter, and served as James Connolly's secretary for the entirety of Easter Week.

A full list of the women detained there, the organisations they belonged to and the dates they were released is available on the Richmond Barracks website Archived 13 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine.

Coming up to the centenaries, significant scholarship was carried out into the roles of women in revolutionary Ireland.

Dr Mary McAuliffe and Liz Gillis were the project's historians and produced a book called Richmond Barracks 1916 "We were there": 77 Women of the Easter Rising.

Participants re-visited the motivation of the women who took part in the Rising and at the same time to reflected on their own vision for Ireland, 100 years from now.

Their struggles have left an often unrecognised legacy that has been kept alive through the activism of thousands of women across Ireland over the past 100 years.

[1] The Yarn School is a community-based textile studio in Goldenbridge, Dublin founded by Swedish-Irish artist Marja Almqvist in 2012.