Margaret Skinnider was one of the 1916 Rising’s many heroes. A scout, courier, and sniper, stationed at the College of Surgeons and St Stephen’s Green garrison, she was shot three times while attempting to clear out British snipers targeting her comrades.

James Connolly’s daughter, Nora, would later write that while William Partridge, “a very famous man in the working class movement,” was present for Skinnider’s squad’s most challenging missions, “he and other members accepted that she was in charge.”

Defending her right to undertake dangerous activities, Skinnider wrote in her autobiography that “women had the same right to risk our lives as the men; that in the constitution of the Irish Republic, women were on an equality with men. For the first time in history, indeed, a constitution had been written that incorporated the principle of equal suffrage.”