Centenary Of Women's Vote Celebrated

100 years ago today women in Ireland were granted the right to vote.

The Representation of the People Act was passed on February 6th, 1918.

It followed years of campaigning by the suffragettes, including Hannah Sheehy Skeffington, who broke the windows of Dublin Castle in protest in 1912.

A plaque has gone up to remember #suffragettes who smashed windows in protest at Dublin Castle. They’re being remembered 100 years to the day since women were given the right to #vote pic.twitter.com/0gSNCdBbSv

— Emma Ní Riain (@EmmaNiRiain) February 6, 2018

A plaque remembering her campaign of disruption was unveiled today.

We asked these women what they thought the female activists would make of modern Ireland;