The pioneering Cork surgeon Dr. James Barry (born Margaret Bulkley) who lived as a man, pursued a prestigious medical career, performing the first successful Caesarean section in the British Empire in which both mother and baby survived.
Kathleen "Kay" McNulty Mauchly Antonelli was a Donegal Gaeilgeoir, computer programmer and one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer.
A woman of many firsts. First person to fly from Cape Town to London. First woman to hold a flying licence. First woman to take a mechanics qualification in the USA. Olympic silver medalist, she was one of the best known women in the 1920s
Corkonian Union Activist known as "the most dangerous woman in America". She founded the Social Democratic Party, led a children's march against child labour conditions, and helped establish the Industrial Workers of the World.
Dancer, teacher, choreographer for The Abbey Theatre and artistic director and founder of The Royal Ballet. The importance of her role in creating not only a world-class national company, but a unique style of dance cannot be overstated.
In 1925, aged 22, Keogh became the world's first female member of a Stock Exchange. Defying expectation, she was a successful entrepreneur, and in the 1940s' she took on the banks and paved the way for women to enter the world of finance.
