1832: Men only - Great Reform Act restricts parliamentary vote to “male persons”
1866: Great petition - Petition signed by 1,499 women including Irish activist Anna Haslam and 24 other Irish women presented to House of Commons by John Stuart Mill
1867: Still no vote - Second Reform Act increases electorate but excludes women
1872/73: Belfast stirring - North of Ireland Society for Women’s Suffrage established in Belfast by pioneering feminist Isabella Tod
1876: Dublin joins - Dublin Women’s Suffrage Association established by Anna and Thomas Haslam
1884: First graduates - First nine Irish women graduated from the Royal University of Ireland in 1884
1884: Women still excluded - Third Reform Act increases electorate but women again excluded
1898: Council vote - Local Government (Ireland) Act allows women to vote and run in district council elections
1900: National movement - Inghínidhe na hÉireann, the first independent women’s nationalist organisation in Ireland, is founded by Maud Gonne
1903: Militant campaign - Women’s Social and Political Union is established – militant campaign begins with figures such as Emmeline Pankhurst at the forefront
1908: Women’s League - Irish Women’s Franchise League founded under the leadership of Margaret Cousins and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington. They adopt some of the militant tactics used in Britain
1910: Black Friday - Hundreds of women are injured when police attack a march on parliament in London on November 18th, 1910
1912: Dublin attack - English suffragettes follow prime minister HH Asquith on his visit to Dublin and are imprisoned for acts of violence
1912: Home Rule - The Home Rule Bill is introduced but there is no vote for women
1913: Hunger strikes - Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill-health) Act, called the Cat and Mouse Act, introduced to tackle suffragette hunger strikers
1914: Cumann na mBan - Cumann na mBan, an auxiliary to the male-only Irish volunteers, founded in April
1916: Proclamation - Proclamation of the Irish Republic specifically includes Irish women
1918: Vote granted - Representation of the People Act gives the vote to all men over 21 and women over 30 if either the woman or her husband own property and The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act permits women to stand for election
1918: Markievicz elected - Countess Markievicz becomes first woman elected to House of Commons
