Jackie was only 17 when she decided to join the Ulster Defense Association (UDA). By the time she was 20, she was an active combatant in the conflict in Northern Ireland known widely today as “the Troubles.”

Characterised as having been "without feeling or remorse", they were convicted of carrying out the murder and sentenced to be detained at Armagh Women's Prison for life at the pleasure of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

Despite the immense challenges faced by women in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, many women were able to find resilience and strength in the face of adversity. Women like Ann Travers, whose sister was killed in an IRA attack, spoke out against violence and advocated for peace.

Jean McConville (née Murray; 7 May 1934 – 1 December 1972) [1] was a woman from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who was kidnapped and murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and secretly buried in County Louth in the Republic of Ireland in 1972 after being accused by the IRA of passing information to British forces.

Oct 6, 2024 · Military and police units operating in Northern Ireland identified, early in the campaign, a bottom-up, tactical need to employ women in specific roles: as searchers to counter the threat of women being used to transport IRA weapons; as questioners because it was noted that women were effective in encouraging people to talk and as decoys to ...

The paramilitaries told some men to leave Northern Ireland; others were kneecapped or subjected to punishment beatings. Other, more powerful men received no punishment. Rape had been a secret, its victims silenced, but we were determined to expose what we were finding out about it.

Emma Groves (1920 – 2 April 2007) was a human rights activist, a leading campaigner for banning the use of plastic bullets, and a co-founder of the United Campaign Against Plastic Bullets in Northern Ireland.

Apr 17, 1972 · From the near legendary Countess Markievicz (Constance Gore-Booth), who was one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, to the black-bereted Provisional I.R.A. women of today, they have...

Discover how the role of women in the Armed Forces has developed over the last 100 years and learn more about the women who pushed the boundaries. ... Flora Sandes was the only British woman to serve as a combat soldier in the First World War. ... WRAC are deployed to Northern Ireland. Deployed to assist civilian police and serve until 1992.

Apr 8, 2016 · In both republican and loyalist paramilitaries it was women who had primary responsibility for hiding and transporting small arms and explosive materials, as the gender ideologies of Northern Ireland meant that women were perceived, at least initially, as less dangerous than men.