Louie Bennett

Who was Louie Bennett?

Louie Bennett was an Irish suffragette, Trades Unionist and journalist and writer born in Ireland. In 1927 she was the first woman to be elected President of the Irish Trades Union Conference and in the same year was elected to the executive committee of the Labour Party. She was also a founder member of the Irish Women Workers' Union.

On 20 November 1935 the Irish Women Workers' Union under Bennett staged street protests against discriminatory sections of Seán Lemass's Conditions of Employment bill.

In later life she campaigned against nuclear power.