WIfrah Ahmed is a Somali-Irish social activist. She is the founder of the United Youth of Ireland non-governmental organization and the Ifrah Foundation.
WKeith Patrick Barry is an Irish mentalist, hypnotist, magician and activist for the elderly.
WThomas Ledlie Birch (1754-1828) was a Presbyterian minister and radical democrat in the Kingdom of Ireland. Forced into American exile following the suppression of the 1798 rebellion, he wrote A Letter from An Irish Emigrant (1799). Assailing the landed Anglican Ascendancy and vindicating the call for an Irish republic, it was the first published apologia for the United Irish insurrection. In the United States he found himself at odds with the spirit of evangelical revivalism.
WLydia "Lizzie" Burns was a working-class Irish woman, best known as a long-term partner of Friedrich Engels.
WMary Burns was a working-class Irish woman, best known as the lifelong partner of Friedrich Engels.
WCissie Cahalan was an Irish trade unionist, feminist, and suffragette.
WWalter Carpenter was a prominent socialist and trade union organiser active in Ireland in the early 20th century.
WJoan Collins is an Irish Right To Change politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency since the 2011 general election.
WSabina Mary Higgins is an Irish actress, political activist and the wife of the current president of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins.
WSinéad de Valera was an Irish author of a number of children's books in both Irish and English. She was married to Taoiseach and third president of Ireland, Éamon de Valera.
WU Dhammaloka was an Irish-born migrant worker turned Buddhist monk, strong critic of Christian missionaries, and temperance campaigner who took an active role in the Asian Buddhist revival around the turn of the twentieth century.
WFrancis Michael Duff, L.O.M., known as Frank Duff, is known especially for bringing attention to the role of the laity during the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church as well as for founding the Legion of Mary in his native city of Dublin, Ireland.
WThomas Michael Kevin Elmore-Meegan, D.Med, also known as Michael Meegan or Mike Meegan, is a British-born Irish humanitarian and the founder of several charities and non-governmental organisations, specialising in anti-hunger and community health care programmes. His brother is Simon Elmore, a Munich based Musician.
WRobert Emmet was an Irish Republican, orator and rebel leader. Following the suppression of the United Irish uprising in 1798, he sought to organise a renewed attempt to overthrow the British Crown and Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, and to establish a national representative government. As had the United Irishmen in 1798, Emmet entertained hopes of French assistance and of coordination with radical militants in Great Britain. In Ireland, however, many of the surviving veterans of '98 hesitated to lend their support, and his rising in Dublin in 1803 proved abortive.
WChristopher Fettes is an English former teacher and founder of the Irish Green Party and an honorary member of the International Vegetarian Union and of the World Esperanto Association.
WGluaiseacht for Global Justice is an Irish environmental, peace and social justice group. Gluaiseacht (Irish pronunciation: [ˈɡl̪ˠuəʃəxt̪ˠ] means "movement" in the Irish language. The group believes in non-violent resistance to the current form of capitalist globalisation. It was originally a network of Ecological and One World Societies at universities and colleges throughout Ireland. It is a member of the Irish Environmental Network.
WMarjorie Hasler was an Irish suffragette, deemed to be "the first Irish martyr for the suffragette cause".
WAlison Hewson is an Irish activist and businesswoman. She is the wife of singer and musician Paul Hewson, known as Bono, from the rock group U2.
WSheila Humphreys, also known as Sighle Humphreys, was an Irish political activist and member of Cumann na mBan.
WMary G. Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones from 1897 onwards, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World.
WThe Reverend Sir Harcourt Lees was an Irish clergyman and political pamphleteer on behalf of Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. He is best known for his strongly worded pamphlets attacking Roman Catholicism.
WEamonn McCann is a People Before Profit politician, journalist, political activist and councillor from Derry, Northern Ireland. In the 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly election, he was elected as an MLA for the Foyle constituency. He served for nearly nine months before losing his seat in 2017. In the 2019 election he was elected to Derry City and Strabane District Council, remaining in the position until his resignation for health reasons in March 2021.
WJames McNulty was an activist for Irish independence and served as the commandant of the Doe Battalion of the Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Easter Rising in County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland, and was a stonemason by trade.
WHelena Mary Molony was a prominent Irish republican, feminist and labour activist. She fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and later became the second woman president of the Irish Trades Union Congress.
WMarguerite Moore was an Irish-Catholic orator, patriot, and activist. A nationalist and suffragist, she was referred to as the "first suffragette".
WMarguerite or Margaret Blanche Palmer was an Irish suffragette and was among the first group of suffragettes imprisoned in Ireland, and later known as one of the "Tullamore Mice".
WAnna Catherine Parnell was an Irish nationalist and younger sister of Irish Nationalist leader, Charles Stewart Parnell.
WFanny Parnell born Frances Isabelle Parnell was an Irish poet, Irish nationalist, and the sister of Charles Stewart Parnell and Anna Catherine Parnell, important figures in nineteenth century Ireland.
WGrace Roe (1885–1979) was Head of Suffragette operations for the Women's Social and Political Union. She was released from prison after the outbreak of World War I due to an amnesty for suffragettes negotiated with the government by the WSPU.
WThomas Paliser Russell was founding member, and leading organiser, of the United Irishmen marked by his radical-democratic and millenarian convictions. He was executed for his part in Robert Emmet's rebellion in 1803.
WIsabella Maria Susan Tod was a Scottish-born suffragist, women's rights campaigner and unionist politician in the north of Ireland. In Belfast she helped secure the municipal vote for women in 1887.
WOrla Treacy is an Irish Loreto sister who runs a boarding school in war torn South Sudan and she works for Women's education and prevent child marriages. Born in 1973 in Bray, County Wicklow, she became an International Women of Courage Award recipient in 2019.
WJoseph Wallace was an Irish activist for vegetarianism, food reform and against vaccination.
WTonie Walsh in Dublin, Ireland, is an LGBT rights activist, journalist, disc jockey, founding editor of Gay Community News (Dublin) and founder of the Irish Queer Archive.
WRichard Davis Webb (1805–1872) was an Irish publisher and abolitionist.