[3] The DSWA was formally founded at a meeting on 26 January 1876 in the Exhibition Palace, Earlsfort Terrace (now the National Concert Hall).
The association confined itself to constitutional, nonsectarian and peaceful methods,[7] and attracted support from both unionist and nationalist suffragists.
Its tactics included making friends in parliament, hosting meetings with important speakers,[2] and issuing pamphlets and periodicals.
[1] Other goals included appointing women to positions "such as rate collectors and sanitary inspectors, while always pursuing the association's main objective of the parliamentary vote.
[11] Following the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919, Lady Dockrell was one of the first women appointed Justice of the Peace.