Irish Women's Suffrage Society facts for kids

The Irish Women's Suffrage Society was an organisation for women's suffrage, founded by Isabella Tod as the North of Ireland Women's Suffrage Society in 1872. Determined lobbying by the Society ensured the 1887 Act creating a new city-status municipal franchise for Belfast conferred the vote on persons rather than men. This was eleven years before women elsewhere Ireland gained the vote in local government elections.

It changed its name to the Irish Women's Suffrage Society in 1909. It was based in Belfast but had branches in other parts of the north of Ireland.

Margaret McCoubrey (1880–1955) joined the society in 1910 and became an active militant.

A suffrage society, with a greater commitment to direct action, was set up in Lisburn by Lillian Metge (1871–1954) which in turned joined the Irish Women's Franchise League.