Visible Women 2020 - Making Visible the Invisible - Department of Foreign Affairs
Making Visible the Invisible By Dr Antonia Hart One of the things #VisibleWomen2020 champions is making visible those women whose stories have never been told. Close to my heart are those nineteenth- and early twentieth-century women in business, who have had little or no share in recent reassessments of women’s historical role in Ireland. There’s endless pleasure to be had, too, in exploring similarities with their entrepreneurial Belgian sisters, as creative, as hardworking, as tenacious. The official record, in Ireland, can hide the truth of such women’s stories. The census recorde...
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