The "Empower Her" Exhibition is coming to Castleblayney this Friday in conjunction with Blayney Blades.
The exhibition, by Linda Hanlon who is travelling across the country, is a portrait collection of 54 women of Ireland who have pushed through personal and professional glass ceilings including, though not exclusively, career firsts.
It kick-starts in Blayney this Friday and will run from then until September 1st in honour of local group Blayney Blades celebrating 30 years.
The portraits are accompanied by short quotes from each of the women detailing advice they would give their younger selves.
The exhibition is punctuated with dates when Irish legislation changed positively for women from 1922 to 2018.
Speaking to Northern Sound, Linda has appealed for people to come along to the Iontas Theatre in Castleblayney this Friday at 11am.
"Well, I think, I would hope that they'd find it inspirational and I hope that they would find that they could identify with some of the women's experiences. The quotes that they, that
accompany their images is kind of thought-provoking for people. That's the experience that I've noticed has been said to me in previous locations and they're a real talking point and I hope an inspiration to move forward and also a reminder of where we've come."
