{"id":25196,"date":"2018-02-05T13:58:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T13:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=25196"},"modified":"2018-02-06T10:18:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T10:18:11","slug":"norma-burke-reports-from-the-launch-of-votail100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=25196","title":{"rendered":"Norma Burke reports from the launch of V\u00f3t\u00e1il 100 to mark the centenary of Irish women getting the vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BADGE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25199\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BADGE-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BADGE-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BADGE-768x639.jpg 768w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BADGE-1024x852.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BADGE.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>February 6th 2018 is the centenary of 100 years of women getting the vote in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>1918 was also the year in which the first woman was elected to the British Parliament at Westminster. Countess de Markievicz, who represented a Dublin constituency, never took her seat at Westminster. Instead, she joined the revolutionary first D\u00e1il, becoming the first female TD.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the centenary, the Houses of the Oireachtas is hosting a <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.oireachtas.ie\/en\/visit-and-learn\/votail-100\/\">programme of events<\/a> that will highlight the history of the suffrage movement and its leaders in Ireland and the impact of wider voting rights.<\/p>\n<p>Norma Burke attended the launch at the Houses of the Oireachtas and spoke to Ivana Bacik,\u00a0Labour Senator for Dublin University and Chairperson of the Votail 100 Committee as well as Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington, grand-daughter of the famous suffragette Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8981\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Votail100NB.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('8981','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Votail100NB.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Votail100NB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=25196-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Votail100NB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Votail100NB.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 17:57 &#8212; 24.6MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 6th 2018 is the centenary of 100 years of women getting the vote in Ireland. 1918 was also the year in which the first woman was elected to the British Parliament at Westminster. Countess de Markievicz, who represented a Dublin constituency, never took her seat at Westminster. Instead, she joined the revolutionary first D\u00e1il, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8982\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Votail100NB.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('8982','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Votail100NB.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Votail100NB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=25196-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Votail100NB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Votail100NB.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 17:57 &#8212; 24.6MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northside-today-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25196"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25207,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25196\/revisions\/25207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}