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Mary McLouchlin was among the approximately 2000 rebels who provided witness statements to the Bureau of Military History regarding their roles in the Easter Rising of 1916. The bureau's archive is the largest collection of images, testimonies, and documents about the Rising.
The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), [2] 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.
Thomas James Clarke (Irish: Tomás Séamus Ó Cléirigh; 11 March 1858 – 3 May 1916 [1]) was an Irish republican and a leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.Clarke was arguably the person most responsible for the 1916 Easter Rising.
Once the Rising was over Gibney remained active with the nationalist movement and joined Cumann na mBan in September of that year (1916). She had met her fiancé Dick McKee, who was a Commandant of the Irish Volunteers and later the Irish Republican Army in Dublin, in 1915. During the War of Independence she operated as a courier for the IRA ...
Joseph Mary Plunkett (Irish: Seosamh Máire Pluincéid; 21 November 1887 – 4 May 1916) was an Irish republican, poet and journalist. As a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising, he was one of the seven signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. Plunkett married Grace Gifford in 1916, seven hours before his execution.
Lieutenant McCormack served as a Military Commander (Fingal, Section 7) to James Connolly, the Commandant and Commander-in-Chief of the Dublin Brigade in The Easter Rising of 1916. McCormack was a member of the Irish Labour Party and the Irish Trades Union Congress and, like Connolly, an advocate of socialism.
Mary McLoughlin (1901–1956), Irish woman who served in the 1916 Easter Rising; Mary McMullen (1920–1986), American mystery writer; Mary McMurtrie (1902–2003), Scottish botanical artist and horticulturalist; Mary McNair Mathews (1834–1903), American historian and writer; Mary McNally (born 1955), American educator and politician
Two days after the insurgents seized the Dublin GPO during the Easter Rising in April 1916, Kearns, a nurse, took over an empty building on North Great George's Street.She hung a Red Cross flag above the door and welcomed casualties of the fighting, from both sides of the conflict.