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Subject: [MAYO] Easter Week Series #25
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:08:30 -0700


Women of Ireland - At a later date much needs to be written about the Women
of Ireland who did so much for their country and sacrificed so much. They
were fighting next to the men and involved in every aspect of the struggle
for Irish freedom and independence. There is Kathleen Clarke the widow of
the executed 1916 leader Tom Clarke and sister to Edward Daly another 1916
leader who was executed. She later became the first female Lord Mayor of
Dublin. Mary MacSwiney, the sister of Terence MacSwiney, she spoke
eloquently against the Treaty at Dail Eireann. Muriel MacSwiney, widow of
Terence MacSwiney, Nora Connolly O'Brien, daughter of another executed 1916
leader, James Connolly, Helena Malony, member of the National Council,
Nancy O'Brien a cousin of Michael Collins who courageously smuggled messages
to her cousin from Dublin Castle. She hid the messages in her hair. Mrs.
Margaret Pearse whose two sons, Padraig and Willie were executed after the
1916 Easter Uprising Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington (widow of the pacifist
Sheehy-Skeffington who was shot in prison during the 1916 Uprising),all the
brave women and girls of Cumann na mBan (Leauge of Women). It was the
auxiliary force of the Irish Volunteers. It is pronounced - cummon na mon.
There are so many more who were an intregal part of Ireland's struggle for
freedom, most of whom are not mentioned in books or articles,
but are remembered as part of Ireland's soul.

© 2001
Margaret Kristich

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