Mary Fleetwood Berry
Mary Fleetwood Berry, Irish Suffragist, fl. 1900–1918.
Berry was a member of the Connaught Women's Franchise League, and the wife of the Reverend Fleetwood Berry, Rector of St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church. She was an active member of the Women's National Health Association. She was elected president of the Irish Women's Temperance Union in 1900 and 1912. She was to attend the Irishwoman's Suffrage Federation conference in Dublin's Mansion House in November 1913.
With the outbreak of the First World War, Moon and many other Galway suffrgtists who became involved in efforts concerning the war, such as fund-raising and provisions. In this capacity she attended the first annual meeting of the Galway War Fund Association in Galway town hall on 31 May 1916.Yet she still found time to chair a suffragist meeting at the Cinema Theatre, William Street, Galway, on 7 October 1915.
Her only son was killed in action in France in 1917.
Upon gaining independence from the United Kingdom in 1922, the Irish Free State enfranchised women over the age of twenty-one, the United Kingdom following its lead in 1928.
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References
- On the "Western Outpost":Local Government and Women's Suffrage in County Galway, 1898-1918, Mary Clancy, pp. 557–587, in "Galway:History and Society", 1996