1912 she was the first woman to be elected to the Dublin City Council. Here she worked closely with Alderman Alfie Byrne. Sarah is also recognised for her prominent place in the suffrage victory procession and escorting Anna Halsam to vote in the Williams Street Courthouse, Dublin, in the 1918 General Election Well-known works Portrait of Henry Joy McCracken which is shown in the Ulster Museum Portrait of Hugh Lane Portrait of Scottish Writer 1897 References 1863 births 1941 deaths 19th-century Irish painters 20th-century Irish painters 20th-century Irish women artists 19th-century Irish women artists Irish women in politics People from Holywood, County Down Local councillors in Dublin (city) Irish women painters Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art