Margaret Ward

Dr Margaret Ward is a feminist historian and Honorary Senior Lecturer in History at Queen’s University, Belfast. In the 1990s, she taught at the University of the West of England and Bath Spa University. She was Director of the Women’s Resource and Development Agency in Belfast from 2005 to 2013. Her pioneering book “Unmanageable Revolutionaries, Women and Irish Nationalism”, first published in 1983, was republished in 2021. Her many other publications include “Maud Gonne: Ireland’s Joan of Arc” and “Fearless Woman: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Feminism and the Irish Revolution.” Her latest book is Rebel Women: Cumann na mBan in Belfast and the Glens of Antrim 1914-1924 (2024).