90 years ago today, om 14 December 1918, women voted for the first time in a General Election.
The law allowing women over the age of 30 to vote and to stand in a General Election had been passed earlier that year. 17 women stood as candidates, but only one was elected; Dorothy, Countess Markievicz for Sinn Fein in South Dublin, however she refused to take her seat in the British Parliament.