Pavlykovska, Iryna

Pavlykovska, Iryna [Павликовська, Ірина; Pavlykovs'ka], b 26 February 1901 in Lviv, d 25 September 1975 in Edmonton, Alberta. Civic leader; daughter of Ivan Makukh and wife of Yuliian Pavlykovsky. A music teacher by vocation, she was active in various women's movement and educational organizations in Lviv: she was a member of the national executive of the Union of Ukrainian Women (1923–8), a founder and director of the Ukrainske Narodnie Mystetstvo co-operative (1925–39), a member of the board of directors of the Ukrainska Zakhoronka society (1926–39), and a member of the national executive of the women’s section of Silskyi Hospodar (1935–9). A displaced person after the Second World War, she organized and headed the Ukrainian Women's Alliance in Germany (1945–50) and served on the executive of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organizations, which she helped found. After settling in Canada in 1950, she held various offices on the executive of the Ukrainian Catholic Women's League of Canada, including the presidency (1964–8).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]