The IHA was founded by Hilda Tweedy along with Andree Sheehy-Skeffington, Susan Manning, and Louie Bennett.
[2] Initially known as the Irish Housewives Committee,[3] the group was formed at a meeting on 12 May 1942.
[2] They initially campaigned for school meals, free travel for pensioners, and consumer protection.
[1] Members of IHA, Beatrice Dixon and Kathleen Swanton began a campaign to have women serve on juries in Ireland.
[4] From 1954 until the early 1960s, the IHA was infiltrated and investigated by Archbishop John Charles McQuaid's Vigilance Committee for communist activity.