Courageous Women is a film inspired by a creative re-imagining of moments from the lives of Constance Markievicz (1868-1927), an Irish politician, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette and socialist; Helena Moloney (1884-1967), a member of Inghinidhe na hÉireann and the Irish Citizen Army who was stationed at City Hall Garrison during the Easter Rising of 1916; Margaret Skinnider (1893-1971), a revolutionary feminist and maths teacher who came to Dublin from Scotland at the age of 23 to take part in the Easter Rising and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946), a radical activist, feminist, pacifist and human rights campaigner and one of Ireland’s foremost suffragettes.