Junior Cycle Teacher Resources

Task 1: Uncovering Women’s Lives

Look at the pictures of Mary Molesworth and Mary Wollstonecraft.

• What do they tell you about their lives?
• Is this evidence reliable?

Look at the Census: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

• What does it tell you about the lives of women on Henrietta Street in 1901 and 1911?
• Has it changed?
• How?

Task 2: A Day in the Life Of…

• Write a diary entry from the point of view of each of the people above.
• Use evidence including portraits, oral histories, and the census to help make the entry authentic.