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Marie Perolz. Marie Perolz (7 May 1874 – 12 December 1950) was also known as Mary Perolz and Máire Perolz, and as Miss Peroze in one crucial document. [1] She was an advanced Irish nationalist, whose career mirrored that of her husband, James Michael 'Citizen' Flanagan and her friend Constance Markievicz.
Irish. Occupation (s) Midwife, nurse. Known for. The delivery of the surrender of the rebels during the Easter Rising. Elizabeth O'Farrell ( Irish: Éilís Ní Fhearghail; 5 November 1883 – 25 June 1957) [1] was an Irish nurse, republican and member of Cumann na mBan, best known for delivering the surrender in the Easter Rising of 1916.
Easter Rising: Irish Republican Brotherhood, Irish Citizen Army, Irish Volunteers, Cumann na mBan: 1919–22 Irish Republic: War of Independence: Irish Republican Army (1917–22), Cumann na mBan: 1939–40 England "Sabotage Campaign" Irish Republican Army (1922-1969) 1942–44 Republic of Ireland-United Kingdom border: Northern Campaign
Margaret Skinnider. Margaret Frances Skinnider (28 May 1892 – 10 October 1971) [1] was a revolutionary and feminist born in Coatbridge, Scotland. She fought during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin as a sniper, among other roles, and was the only woman wounded in the action. As a scout, she was praised for her bravery. [2]
Lily Kempson (17 January 1897 – 21 January 1996) was an Irish revolutionary who took part in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. Born Elizabeth Anne Kempson in County Wicklow, Ireland, she is remembered as an trade union activist and lecturer, as well as an insurrectionist in the Irish Citizen Army. She was the last surviving participant of the ...
They were ordered to immediately move to an IRA training camp in Duckett's Grove, County Carlow. The four women remained there until the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Her memoir, In Times of Peril, leaves from the Diary of Nurse Linda Kearns from Easter Week 1916 to Mountjoy 1921 was edited by Annie M.P. Smithson in 1922.
The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was fighting the First World War.
500–2,000 military deaths [4] c. 1,000 loyalist civilian deaths [5] The Irish Rebellion of 1798 ( Irish: Éirí Amach 1798; Ulster-Scots: The Hurries [6]) was a popular insurrection against the British Crown in what was then the separate, but subordinate, Kingdom of Ireland. The main organising force was the Society of United Irishmen.