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Annie Higgins, or Annie O'Higgins (1899 or 1900 – August 1935),[1] was an Irish pianist, revolutionary, and a member of the Central Branch of Cumann na mBan. Originally from Dublin, she worked as a music teacher in Carrickmacross in County Monaghan.[2]
Reputedly on holiday in Dublin during Easter week of 1916, she became involved in the Easter Rising.[3] Stationed initially in the Hibernian Bank on what was then Sackville Street, opposite Dublin's GPO, Higgins was later based within the GPO itself.[4] She was sent by members of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic, with a despatch from the GPO to Monaghan, but was arrested while en route.[5][6] She was jailed, initially in Armagh, before being moved to Richmond, Kilmainham,[7] and Mountjoy gaols with Constance Markievicz, Helena Molony, Kathleen Lynn and Countess Plunkett.[2] She was released in early June 1916.[2]
After her release, Higgins worked as a musician and published musical arrangements for a number of Irish ballads.[8][9] Together with her mother, Higgins died in a fire at her flat, above Sinn Féin's offices on Dublin's Parnell Square, in August 1935.[1][4][10][11]
References
edit- ^ a b "Mysterious Fire - Two Women Burnt to Death". The Border Morning Mail. New South Wales. 21 August 1935.
Dublin, August 19 [..] Mrs. O'Higgins and her daughter Annie, a well-known pianist aged 35, were burned to death following a mysterious fire at the Sinn Féin headquarters in Parnell Square
- ^ a b c Dooley, Terence (ed.), "Monaghan's Participants to the Dublin Rising", From a Whisper to a Road - Exploring the Untold Story of Monaghan 1916 (PDF), Monaghan County Library, p. 9
- ^ McCoole, Sinéad (2003). No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years, 1900-1923. O'Brien Press. p. 50. ISBN 9780862788131.
Annie Higgins, a music teacher at a school in Carrickmacross [..] had been on holiday in her native Dublin when the Rising occured
- ^ a b Gaffney, Gertrude (1936), "Annie Higgins", The Capuchin Annual, pp. 169–170
- ^ McCoole, Sinéad, ed. (2017), Women of 1916 (PDF), Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, p. 27,
Annie Higgins [..] A music teacher by profession [..] had been in the Hibernian Bank and the GPO until Thursday and was sent to the North by the members of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic on 'a mission'
- ^ "Mná 1916: Women 1916 Nationwide Tour". ireland2016.gov.ie. Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Archived from the original on 20 December 2017.
music teacher Annie Higgins [was] dispatched from the GPO with a message for rebels in the North but arrested along her way, the note confiscated, its contents never revealed
- ^ Witness Statement - Brighid, Bean Ui Mhairtin (Ni Fhoghludha) - Document No. WS398 (PDF) (Report). Bureau of Military History. 1950. p. 15.
in Kilmainham [..] a fresh batch of prisoners was brought in, including [..] Countess Plunkett, Winifred Carney, Marie Perolz, Helena Molony, Nellie Gifford and Annie Higgins, who afterwards lost her life so tragically in a fire in Parnell Square. [..] The following Saturday or Sunday [..] we were all brought in the Black Maria to Mountjoy Prison
- ^ "Author - Higgins, Annie G." catalogue.nli.ie. National Library of Ireland. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
- ^ "Christmas Hymn". adams.ie. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
Music by Annie G. Higgins. Finished in Mountjoy Prison, May, 1916 [..] Higgins, a music teacher, served as a courier during Easter Week, and was arrested afterwards and held in Mountjoy
- ^ "Dublin Fire Which Cost Two Lives - Women's Terrible Fate". Irish Independent. 20 August 1935.
Two women lost their lives in the fire which gutted premises at Parnell Square, Dublin, on Sunday night. They were Mrs. B. O'Higgins and her daughter, Miss Annie G. O'Higgins, B.Mus., the well known Dublin musician
- ^ "Remembering the Past - 44 Parnell Square". anphoblacht. 18 August 2005. Retrieved 15 September 2023.