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Cumann na mBan (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkʊmˠən̪ˠ n̪ˠə ˈmˠanˠ]; lit. ' The Women's Council ' but in English termed The Irishwomen's Council ), [ 1 ] abbreviated C na mB , [ 2 ] is an Irish republican women's paramilitary organisation formed in Dublin on 2 April 1914, merging with and dissolving Inghinidhe na hÉireann , and in 1916 ...
By 1918 O'Mullane was a member of the Executive of Cumann na mBan. She had founded branches in County Sligo and went on to work all over the country. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] During the Irish War of Independence O'Mullane moved around Ireland establishing and maintaining lines of communication between Dublin and Irish Republican Army units throughout Ireland.
Brigid Lyons Thornton (13 May 1896 – 15 November 1987) was an Irishwoman who was a member of Cumann na mBan, an officer in the Irish Free State Army and a doctor. [1] [2] From a young age she was involved in the nationalist movement, starting with selling badges and flags at the funeral of O'Donovan Rossa in 1915.
She was an adjutant in Cumann na mBan. [3] She was a seamstress and fashioned her military uniform from one that Colbert gave her. She later married Denis O'Brien at St James' Catholic Church, Dublin on 12 April 1926, [ 9 ] who had been one of the volunteers in the Marrowbow Lane garrison with his two brothers.
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The GPO nursing contingent was a group of twelve women, including members of Cumann na mBan - the republican women's organisation for Irish independence - who remained in the besieged G.P.O. building during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin and removed the wounded to hospital.
Cumann na mBan; C. Cumann na Saoirse; I. Inghinidhe na hÉireann; L. Lá na mBan This page was last edited on 22 January 2019, at 03:51 (UTC). Text is available under ...
"Sliabh na mBan" - an Irish-language song composed by Michéal O Longáin of Carrignavar and translated by Seamus Ennis, about the massacre in July 1798 of a party of Tipperary insurgents at Carrigmoclear on the slopes of Slievenamon [6] [7] ”Tipperary on my Mind” "Strolling Through Tipperary" "Streets of Mulllinahone" "Tipperary Hills For Me"