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26 Mar 2026

Popular Mayo museum to hold talk in series: 'Celebrating women in Irish history'

The Michael Davitt Museum in Straide will hold talk on Ladies’ Land League Activist, Leading Feminist, Labour Reformer and Irish Nationalist Marguerite Moore

Popular Mayo museum to hold talk in series: 'Celebrating women in Irish history'

Marguerite Moore

A museum in Mayo village Straide is to host the next talk for their series "The Michael Davitt Museum celebrating women in Irish history".

Next up: Ladies’ Land League Activist, Leading Feminist, Labour Reformer and Irish Nationalist Marguerite Moore.

Moore emigrated to New York in 1884, where she became known as a leading feminist, labour reformer and Irish Nationalist. Moore linked her campaigning for women’s rights to her activities earlier in her life in the Ladies’ Land League - which had led to her imprisonment in Tullamore prison for three months.

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During the revolutionary era, she provided a direct link between the Ladies’ Land League and the new generation of Cumann na mBan members in the United States.

Dr Fiona White is programme chair and a lecturer on the History and Geography programme at ATU Mayo, where she teaches history, literature and archaeology modules.

Her main research interests are the big house and landed estates and Irish women's history. She has written a number of book chapters and journal articles on these topics.

Location: Michael Davitt Museum, Straide, Co Mayo, F26 FX37
Date: Wednesday 11th June 2025
Time: 7:00 PM
Fee: €5.00
Email booking: info@michaeldavittmuseum.ie
Online booking: Eventbrite

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