One hundred years ago a group of Irish rebels decided they had had enough of living under British rule. They banded together to agitate for land reform, the right to speak their own language and for a free state. Many of the men in the uprising have been lionised in literature and film - but you'd be hard put to find mention of the women who plotted with them, broke gender barriers to agitate for change, took up arms and went to jail. On their insistence, the Irish uprising became the first revolution to promote true equality and universal suffrage.