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list of women who were part of rebellions in Ireland

This is a list of women who were part of rebellions in Ireland. A revolt is an organized attempt to overthrow an existing body of state authority through a rebellion or uprising.

Susie Goddard^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

1916 related

Ruth Russell (other)

RUTH RUSSELL in REVOLUTIONARY IRELAND [Ruth Russell https://www.markholan.org/archives/7121]

Overend Family, Dr Letitia Overend

http://thewildgeese.irish/m/blogpost?id=6442157%3ABlogPost%3A20831 http://www.thedublinforums.com/showthread.php?289-The-Womens-Roll-In-Irish-History/page11

Elizabeth “Lillie” Burke (McGinty)
Lucy Smyth (Byrne)
Martha “Birdie” Walsh (Slater)
Molly Reynolds (1916)
Margaret McElroy
Mary Josephine “Mary Jo” Walsh (Rafferty)
Margaret Walsh (Jenkins)
Matilda “Tilly” Simpson
Peggy Downey
Stasia Byrne (Toomey)
Annie Cronin

1916

Members of the Provisional Committee include:

Mrs. John MacNeill (Rosetta (née McAuley) McNeill),
Mrs. Tuohy,
Mrs. MacDonagh O'Mahony,

http://www.labour.ie/download/pdf/seven_women_of_the_labour_movement1916.pdf

Other prominent members

Mrs Duffy Edwards?????
Mary Gahan Surname: Gahan. Married name O’Carroll:Not a lot of info so far.
Katherine Gifford 1916
Kathleen Gillies, wife of Paddy O'Daly
Nora Gillies, wife of Seamus O'Daly
Una Gordon

* Mary Hyland I can't find dates for her (married Michael Kelly)- See below

Kathleen Lane-O'Kelley (née Shanahan) Seriously!! Founded Cumann na mBan and there is NOTHING about her online.
Maureen MacDonagh O'Mahoney
Agnes MacNamee
Agnes MacNeill
Jo McGowan
Lizzie Mulhall
Bridget Murragh
Una O'Brien
Teresa O'Connell
Mimi Plunkett
Niamh Plunkett
Maria Quigley
Priscilla Quigley
Eilis Robinson Norris Elizabeth (1899-1969), possibly only civil war due to quote. Need book "No ordinary women"
Nell Ryan - Almost certainly Min's sister - and there would be Mary Kate and Phyllis as well.
Maire Tuohy - Founding member but no other information about her at all.

GPO women

GPO Headquarters Battalion women 1916

There was a total of thirty-four women from the ICA and Cumann na mBan in the GPO.

Mary Cullen (other), sent with Bridget Grace to Northumberland garrison to warn it of the arriving troops.
Peggy Downey, from Liverpool. She was the chief cook.
Brigid Grace, sent with Mary Cullen.
Annie Higgins,
Martha Kelly (other), married Michael Murphy, she was imprisoned in Kilmainham
Rose Ann Murphy, Rose Ann Morgan’s (née Murphy) Cumann na mBan brooch. Rose Ann, from Parr Street, Liverpool, was stationed at the GPO during Easter week where she acted as a courier for Rising. The women of Cumann na mBan were heavily involved in the military action with some fighting alongside the men in the rebel garrisons.^[9]^[10]
Mae Murray (other),
Molly O'Reilly (other), became one of Michael Collins best sources
Mollie Reynolds, was very active in the later anti-conscription campaign
Phyllis Ryan (other) (Eilis Ni Rian), she was sister of Jim and Min, later Mrs Sean T O'Kelly
Effie Traaffe,
Martha Walsh, later Mrs Murphy.

1916 Easter rising

Women listed as being involved

Aine Ní Rian Reis's Chambers and Father Mathew Hall

Anastasia MacLoughlin

Annie Higgins Hibernian Bank GPO

Annie Kelly St. Stephen’s Green

Annie MacSwiney Cork

Annie McQuade Jacob’s

Aoife Taafe

Bessie Lynch (Mrs. Kelly) City Hall

Bridget Brady City Hall

Bridget Davis (Mrs. Duffy) City Hall

Bridget Gough (Goff) S1. Stephen's Green

Bridget Grace (GPO)

Bridget Hegarty

Bridget Murtagh St. Stephen's Green

Bridie Farrell

Bridie Walsh

Bridy Kenny

Caroline Mitchell (Ireland) Carrie Four Courts

Catherine Liston

Catherine Treston

Christina Hayes Father Mathew Hall

Dolly O'Sullivan Four Courts

Dora Harford Father Mathew Hall

Eileen Byrne

Eileen O'Hanrahan (Eily) (later Mrs. O'Hanrahan O'Reilly)

Eileen O'Hegarty Enniscorthy

Eileen Parker (other) Father Mathew Hall

Eileen Seton Pringle Secretary to Sir John Lumsden

Eilis Gray aka (Betsy)

Eilis Ní Chorra

Eilis Ní Rian (later Mrs. Sean O'Connell) Reis's Chambers and Father Mathew Hall

Eilis O'Connell (Ireland) Four Courts

Ellen (Nellie) Ennis Four Courts

Ellen Humphreys

Emily O'Keeffe

Esther Ryan worked with the Yeats sisters at the Cuala Press

Florence Mead (Flossie) Four Courts

Frances Downey

G. Colley

Grace O'Sullivan (Ireland)

Gretta Comerford Enniscorthy

Josie Pollard Jacob’s

Julia McAley

K. Kennedy

K. Ryan

Kate Brown (Ireland) (unclear whether she was mobilised in Dublin or Enniscorthy)

Kate Kelly (Ireland) Kate St. Stephen's Green

Kathleen Cleary St. Stephen's Green

Kathleen Fleming

Kathleen Kearney (later Mrs. Behan)

Kathleen Kenny Father Mathew Hall

Kathleen Maher

Kathleen Martin (Ireland) Father Mathew Hall

Kathleen Murphy (1)

Kathleen Murphy (2) (from Belfast)

Kathleen Ní Chorra

Kathleen Seerey (Mrs. Redmond) St. Stephen’s Green

Kathy Doran

Katie Barrett (formerly Connolly) City Hall;

Katie Byrne

Katie O'Connor

Katy McGuinness Father Mathew Hall and Four Courts

Laura Daly (later Mrs. O'Sullivan)

Lily Cooney

Lily Murnane Father Mathew Hall

Madge Daly Limerick

Maggie Derham Four Courts

Maggie Joyce St. Stephen's Green

Maggie McLaughlin

Maire Carron (or (May) McCarron) Four Courts and Father

Marcella Cosgrove

Margaret (Maggie) Walsh

Margaret Martin (Ireland) Father Mathew Hall

Margaret O'Flaherty

Maria Quigley

Marion Stokes (Ireland) Enniscorthy

Martha Brown (Ireland)

Martha Kelly (Ireland)

Martha Walsh (Mrs. Murphy) Imperial Hotel

Mary (May) Byrne Marrowbone

Mary Cullen (Ireland) GPO

Mary Devereux (Mrs. Allen) St. Stephen’s Green Allen Mary. (Devereux, Mary) Irish Citizen Army. Born on the 10 of May 1899 died on the 24th of January 1945, aged 16 at the time of the Rising. She was employed in Jacobs Biscuit Factory, Bishop Street, Dublin. She fought in the Royal College of Surgeons, Saint Stephen's Green areas. Mary Allen was sent home on Wednesday 26 April from the College of Surgeons on account of her age.medals list Documents

Mary Hyland (Mrs. (Molly) Kelly) St. Stephen’s Green

Mary Shannon (Ireland)

Mary White (Ireland) Enniscorthy

Maura O'Neill Mackay Four Courts

May Gahan Imperial Hotel , Born Mary Gahan 22 Feb 1900 in Dublin Ireland, daughter of School teacher Robert Gahan and his wife Mary Murray.

She was a member of Cumann na mBan, the Irish republican women’s paramilitary organisation formed in Dublin on 2 April 1914 as an auxiliary of the Irish Volunteers.

She was in the General Post office at the start of the 1916 Easter Rising. May was imprisoned in Kilmainham after the rising.

She married John/Shaun O’Carroll from Silvemount Tipperary 6 May 6 1917 at St. Agatha’s Catholic Church, Dublin, Eire by the Rev. Father O`Rourke.

John and May O’Caroll went to Liverpool England in late 1923 or early 1924. They sailed for New Zealand with the two eldest children Robert Emmett and Eileen Marklewies. Mary lost four children before the O’Carroll family settled in Australia in 1929^[11]

It had rained heavily on the march to Kilmainham.

Another woman to endure a difficult walk to Kilmainham was May Gahan O’Carroll. She had been pelted with horse dung and bottles en route. One of the 1916 leaders, Michael Mallin, had sent her as a dispatch rider to the GPO on Easter Monday, where she remained until Wednesday, when she was sent further to Cleary’s Department Store.

Despite hiding in one of the vaults in Marlborough Street Cathedral, she was arrested and taken, first to the Custom House, then to Richmond Barracks, and finally to Kilmainham. She was held in the prison for roughly ten days, having no change of clothing and sharing a cell with two other girls.

Living in Australia years afterwards, May told her daughter that their cell was located on the ground floor, and a young “Tommy,” as she described him, climbed up to the window to tell them some of the leaders were to be executed. Every single , male or female, held in Kilmainham during those early weeks of May 1916 all mention the chilling, loud shots ringing out at dawn and echoing through the building, leaving them to wonder which of the men had been executed. May Gahan O’Carroll was interned again in Kilmainham seven years later, during the Irish Civil War.^[12]

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