An event has been held at the UN headquarters in New York where a poem by Eavan Boland entitled ‘Our Future Will Become the Past of Other Women’ was launched to celebrate 100 years of Irish Women’s Suffrage/ Vótail 100. Video: UNTV
Granddaughter of Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, Dr Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington, marked the centenary of women's vote by re-enacting her grandmother's defiance against male rule by breaking a window in Dublin Castle.
Author and historian Liz Gillis talks about the role of women and a few of the key female players in the 1916 rising. Video: Kathleen Harris