Rosaleen Mills
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16 July 1905
Rosaleen Mills | |
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| Born | Rosaleen Patricia Broughton Mills 16 July 1905 Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland |
| Died | 17 September 1993 (aged 88) St Mary's Nursing Home, Pembroke Road, Dublin, Ireland |
Rosaleen Mills (16 July 1905 – 17 September 1993) was an Irish activist and educator.[1]
Rosaleen Mills was born in Ballinasloe, County Galway, on 16 July 1905. She was the fourth of the five children of John Mills and Rosetta Dobbin. Her father was Resident Medical Superintendent of the Connaught District Lunatic Asylum. She was educated at Mount Pleasant School, Ballinasloe, and the Roedean School in Brighton, England. She studied Spanish and French at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), attaining an MA in Modern Languages. While attending TCD she was an active member of the all-female Elizabethan Society, the only society women could join as members at the time.
After graduation, she lived in Germany for a year and travelled to France and Spain.[1] In 1936 she became the first woman to address the College Historical Society. There she proposed the motion "That This House Reveres the Memory of Miss Pankhurst" at a debate chaired by Sheelagh Murnaghan.[2] The society subsequently named an annual competition in her honour, the "Rosaleen Mills Maidens Final".[3]
Career
From 1930 to 1936, Mills taught at what became Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Clontarf, Dublin. From 1936 to 1937 she nursed her mother full-time, after which she took a position at the commercial office of the Canadian Embassy to Ireland from 1938 to 1945. She then went on to teach at the private Knockrabo School in Goatstown, Dublin until its closure in the late 1950s. In 1957 she helped to establish a new co-educational and non-denominational school, Sutton Park, in Sutton, Dublin. She served as the vice-principal until she retired in 1970.[1]
