Irene Greenwood

Irene Greenwood (9 December 1898 — 14 April 1992) was an Australian radio broadcaster and feminist and peace activist.

Early life and education Greenwood was born in Albany, Western Australia on 9 December 1898. She was the oldest child of Henry Driver and Mary Ann Driver née Hicken. Greenwood attended Albany State School between 1905 and 1912 and Perth Modern School between 1913 and 1917. She then went on to study arts at the University of Western Australia.

Later life and career Driver worked as a secretary at the Department of Agriculture between 1918 and 1920 where she met her husband, Albert Ernest Greenwood, an accountant. They married on 18 June 1920 at the Anglican Church of the Annunciation in Broome, Western Australia. Greenwood retired from radio broadcasting in 1953.

Greenwood became involved in feminist and peace movements through her mother who was involved with the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Australian Federation of Women Voters. In 1975 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for her "service to women's welfare".

In 2005 a biography by Kaye Murray, Voice for Peace: The spirit of social activist Irene Greenwood (1898-1992), was published.

Greenwood Street, in the Canberra suburb of Denman Prospect, is named in her honour.