Tag: Margaret Skinnider

#OTD in 1892 – Birth of revolutionary and feminist, Margaret Skinnider, in Coatbridge, Scotland. She fought during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.

28/05/2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

‘Scotland is my home, but Ireland my country.’ –Margaret Skinnider Margaret Skinnider was born to immigrant parents from Co Monaghan. She became a mathematics teacher in Scotland and was active in the women’s suffrage movement. She also joined the Glasgow branches of the Irish Volunteers and Cumann na mBan in 1914; she also joined the […]

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#OTD in 1971 – Death of revolutionary, Margaret Skinnider, in Glengeary, Dublin.

10/10/2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

“Scotland is my home, but Ireland my country.” –Margaret Skinnider Margaret Skinnider was born to immigrant parents from Co Monaghan. She became a mathematics teacher in Scotland and was active in the women’s suffrage movement. She also joined the Glasgow branches of the Irish Volunteers and Cumann na mBan in 1914; she also joined the […]

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#OTD in 1892 – Birth of revolutionary and feminist, Margaret Skinnider, in Coatbridge, Scotland.

28/05/2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

“Scotland is my home, but Ireland my country.” –Margaret Skinnider Margaret Skinnider was born to immigrant parents from Co Monaghan. She became a mathematics teacher in Scotland and was active in the women’s suffrage movement. She also joined the Glasgow branches of the Irish Volunteers and Cumann na mBan in 1914; she also joined the […]

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Margaret Skinnider – Women of Ireland

08/05/2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

“Scotland is my home, but Ireland my country.” –Margaret Skinnider Margaret Skinnider was born in 1893 in Coatbridge, Scotland, to immigrant parents from Co Monaghan. She became a mathematics teacher in Scotland and was active in the women’s suffrage movement. She also joined the Glasgow branches of the Irish Volunteers and Cumann na mBan in […]

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