hauntedbystorytelling:

Aside from a few stars like Constance Markievicz [in this photograph], who was second in
command at the rebels’ St. Stephen’s Green outpost in Dublin, or the
schoolteacher turned sniper Margaret Skinnider, most of the estimated
260 women who took part in the 1916 insurrection never found their way
into the history books. Eight women in the Easter Rising, here (source: NYTimes)