#OTD in 1914 – Cumann na mBan, Irish women’s Republican movement, was founded.

02/04/2019.Reading time 10 minutes.

Ní saoirse go saoirse na mban. Over 100 women gathered in Dublin to discuss the role of women in the lead-up to revolution. The meeting, at Wynn’s Hotel, was presided over by Agnes O’Farrelly. The first provisional committee of Cumann na mBan included Agnes MacNeill, Nancy O’Rahilly, Mary Colum, Jenny Wyse Power, Louise Gavan Duffy […]

#OTD in 1921 – The Irish White Cross was established on as a mechanism for distributing funds raised by the American Committee for Relief in Ireland.

01/02/2019.Reading time 1 minute.

The Irish White Cross was initiated by Larry O’Neill and managed by the Quaker businessman, and later Irish Free State senator, James G. Douglas. The White Cross continued to operate until the Irish Civil War and its books were officially closed in 1928. From 1922 its activities were essentially wound down and remaining funds divested […]

#OTD in 1914 – Cumann na mBan, Irish women’s Republican movement, was founded.

02/04/2018.Reading time 10 minutes.

#OTD in 1921 – The Irish White Cross was established as a mechanism for distributing funds raised by the American Committee for Relief in Ireland.

01/02/2018.Reading time 1 minute.

#OTD in 1914 – Cumann na mBan is founded at Wynn’s Hotel, Dublin.

02/04/2017.Reading time 10 minutes.

1914 – Cumann na mBan founded at Wynn’s Hotel, Dublin.

02/04/2016.Reading time 10 minutes.

Cumann na mBan

17/02/2016.Reading time 10 minutes.

‘Remember me is all I ask, And if remembrance proves a task, forget’ … May Gibney, April 1923 On 2 April 1914, over 100 women gathered in Dublin to discuss the role of women in the lead-up to revolution. The meeting, at Wynn’s Hotel, was presided over by Agnes O’Farrelly. The first provisional committee of […]

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