Rosie Hackett, Women's History Month

Rosie Hackett (1892–1976) was an Irish insurgent and trade union leader. She was a founding member of the Irish Women Workers Union and supported strikers during the 1913 Dublin Lockout and took part in the 1916 Easter Rising. The conditions of work in Dublin at the time are continuously described as deplorable particularly for women, who were often subject to sexual abuse as well. Rosie Hackett organized strikes, speeches and was the first woman allowed into a printing press(her expertise helped fix the problems the men were having with the machine) to create the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. She spent her entire life fighting for improving the rights and lives of Ireland's workers. She was awarded a gold medal of honor in 1960 and when she died at 84 years of age she was buried with full military honors. There were 21 new bridges built in Ireland in 2014-2015 and only one was named for a woman and that was Rosie Hackett. Read more about her life here: http://womensmuseumofireland.ie/articles/rosie-hackett--2

Other Sources:

IrelandHistory.org

The Irish Times