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Sharing the Shirt Factory Industry legacy| WHN Award Winners ’21 |Award Finalists’22| For updates pls visit the FB group⬇️| #FactoryGirls #ShirtFactories

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‘You are invited to link arms, walk around the City & look up at the plaques & iconic buildings, remembering the women & workers that came before us, on whose shoulders we now stand.’ #factorygirls #derrygirls #shirtfactories

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“The more we see women, the more we realise the contribution women have made to our past and continue to do so in our present.’ Dr Margaret Ward @MargaretWard1 wrda.net/wp-content/upl… @VisibleWomenUK_ @HerstoryIreland @PSSAtweets #Heritage #HERstory

Lack of sculpture dedicated to women in #Kosovo and #NorthernIreland “Gender disparity is painfully obvious in many post-conflict societies across the world where it is difficult to find acknowledgment of the role of women in peacebuilding. Kosovo and Northern Ireland are good…

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Rosemount Shirt Factory 📸🧡🍁 Thanks to @gk_photogrxphy One of the most iconic landmarks in the City, with spectacular views. Home to independent businesses & a hub for the local community. Found at the top of one of the most beautiful parks in the town #stitchintime #love 🏭🧡

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Míle buíochas to Jenni of @LittleAcornsBks for this wee gem.. “Everything is Mnásome” by @Kunak is a celebration of Mná na hÉireann. An extraordinary achievement by an Irish woman recorded for each day of year. Mnásome ar fad!! 📕 💚 #IrishBookWeek

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And we’re live! Go go go!! All profits @WomensAidNI 💜 Six designs available, five Belfast & one Dublin. Pre-orders open this week, then stock ordered & packed & dispatched 7 Nov. #ChristmasCards #UppaMillies shesellssanctuary.bigcartel.com

Belfast Castle obviously plus last year’s fave, the King’s Hall… 7/

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It's a privilege to be able to share a clip of an original recording, performed by Derry's own Roy Arbuckle, titled ' A Patent Turner' 🎶🎶 A song dedicated to the #FactoryGirls special dedication to 'The Star Factory' workers, where his own Mother worked 💖 Full song on FB group


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Leeds sculpture celebrates 400 women, from suffragists to boxers theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/o…


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NEW SCULPTURE UNVEILED TO CELEBRATE INSPIRATIONAL LEEDS WOMEN It was a pleasure to attend last night’s launch of Ribbons by Pippa Hale. The new sculpture celebrates the hundreds of Leeds women that have made a difference in the city. #leeds #inspirationalwomen

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#OnThisDay 13th October 1905, Christabel Pankhurst & Annie Kenney attended a meeting at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. When their questions about women's suffrage repeatedly went unanswered, they unfurled a "Vote for Women" banner in protest.

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Oct 1910 Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst was invited by the Irish Women’s Franchise League to address the audience assembled in @StColumbsHall Emily Wilding Davidson wrote to the Derry Standard in 1911 complaining re. the paper’s coverage of the suffragettes in the editorials #Listingat50

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Factory Girls & Factory Workers Dance 💃💃🕺🕺🎶🎶 Saturday 14th December, 8pm-Late, @Derry_Guildhall Tickets on sale from today! #Factorygirls Ticket & Event details via FB: fb.me/e/Ci0HEXk1N

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Signs of work finally starting to develop formr Tillie & Hendersn site in #Derry - 21yrs after the iconic old structure was toppld at short notice. Plus the old shirt factory site opposite is also being developd. We're starting to see growing construction activity around the town

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'Our mission is inspired by the fact that before we started our campaign, there was not one single public statue commemorating the achievements of real Welsh Women.' @women_welsh @PSSAtweets @VISIBLEWomenUK @TessaBoase @MaryAnningRocks @TheMatchgirls @KayWesley #hertstory


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Have you seen the Alluvia statue in the River Stour in Canterbury? Created by international artist Jason deCaires Taylor, Alluvia will be formally presented to the public and handed over to Canterbury City Council at 6.30 pm on Sunday 22 September.


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Exciting! Lady Rhondda - powerhouse inter-war #feminist, equal rights #activist, editor of the radical Time & Tides. This #statue has been a long time coming

Happy Monument day!

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A wonderful #bookshop - Jenni Doherty has created something magical in Derry

A #bookshop is not a bookshop without #authors & their creations. All welcome to visit if in #Derry to pop in, say hello & sign their books. From local to international, traditionally published to self-published, from fiction to non-fiction. Meet the wordsmiths of recent... 1/4📚

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'It finally feels like I’m getting some national recognition It doesn't get any bigger than getting a statue made of you-I don't have to struggle to tell my story anymore. It's been told for me...a wonderful feeling” @DeirdreLegacy @HerstoryIreland @VISIBLEWomenUK #factorygirls

Drogheda honours Ireland’s first female professional boxer and World champion Deirdre Gogarty with unveiling of new sculpture today # boxing

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'Excuse me Mr Rohan, not factory women, factory girls. Everyone here is a factory girl. Factory girls never grow old and they don't fade away..’ Rebecca, ‘The Factory Girls’, 1982 Written by Frank McGuinness #FactoryGirls #shirtfactories #herstory #heritage

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‘Did you make that yourself’ On @markyptweets @BBCRadioFoyle today after 1 news. Our @Number19CD event for Culture night Well did you? @CultureNight @WhatsonDS @Derryvisitor @sustfash @FOTF21 @MaureenGhee @fionaherbst1 @ArtybirdDonna @celticirishart

🎨 Did You Make That Yourself - Culture Night 📅 Date: 20 September 2024 📍 Venue: Number 19 Craft and Design - The Craft Village 🕙 Time: 5pm - 9PM 🔗 Find out more about Culture Night: derrystrabane.com/culturenight #WhatsonDS #HEREforArtsandCulture

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