Blazing a Trail

Sarah Webb is an award-winning children’s writer. She won Irish Book awards for Blazing a Trail: Irish Women who Changed the World (illustrated by Lauren O’Neill) and A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea: Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood (illustrated by Steve McCarthy).Sarah runs creative writing clubs for young writers, reviews children’s books for the Irish Independent, programmes many children’s and family events and works part-time in a children’s bookshop. Passionate about bringing children and books together, Sarah was awarded the Children’s Books Ireland Award for Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Books in Ireland.www.sarahwebb.ieLauren O’Neill is an illustrator and graphic designer. Originally from Wexford, she moved to Dublin to study in NCAD and stayed. Her work has appeared across a wide variety of areas from advertising campaigns to storybooks and gallery exhibitions. She has illustrated many books including Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, which won the Children’s Books Ireland Merit Award for Illustration, and Blazing a Trail which won the Children's Book of the Year (senior) Irish Book Award in 2018.www.laurenipsum.ie

packed with fascinating facts and stunning illustrations

• About this Book by Sarah Webb and Lauren O’Neill 5GRANUAILE clan leader and sea captain 6–7MARIA EDGEWORTH bestselling author and educationist 8–9DR JAMES BARRY daring surgeon 10–11ANNA HASLAM suffragist 12–13MOTHER JONES labour organiser and champion of child workers 14–15NELLIE CASHMAN gold prospector and businesswoman 16–17SARAH PURSER artist, patron and businesswoman 18–19MAUD GONNE nationalist and activist 20–21ANNE SULLIVAN groundbreaking teacher 22–23COUNTESS MARKIEVICZ rebel leader and politician 24–25ALEEN CUST Ireland’s first female vet 26–27DR KATHLEEN LYNN doctor and nationalist 28–29HANNA SHEEHY SKEFFINGTON suffragette, nationalist and human-rights campaigner 30–31LILIAN BLAND pioneering aviator 32–33EILEEN GRAY designer and architect 34–35MÁIRE NÍ CHINNÉIDE founder of camogie and Irish-language activist 36–37LADY HEATH aviator and Olympian 38–39MAINIE JELLETT artist and designer 40–41DAME NINETTE DE VALOIS founder of the Royal Ballet 42–43DAME KATHLEEN LONSDALE crystallographer 44–45MAUREEN O’HARA actor and businesswoman 46–47SYBIL CONNOLLY fashion designer and businesswoman 48–49KAY MCNULTY MAUCHLY ANTONELLI digital computer programmer 50–51MAEVE KYLE Ireland’s first female Olympian 52–53DAME JOCELYN BELL BURNELL astrophysicist 54–55ANNE O’BRIEN professional international footballer 56–57SONIA O’SULLIVAN world champion athlete 58–59MARY ROBINSON Ireland’s first female president 60–61BLAZING A TRAIL INTO THE FUTURE 62–63About the Author and Illustrator 64