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Cumann na mBan protest outside Mountjoy Prison, 23 July 1921. On 7 January 1922 the Anglo-Irish Treaty was approved by the Second Dáil by a close vote of 64–57. On 5 February a convention was held to discuss this, and 419 Cumann na mBan members voted against as opposed to 63 in favour. [20]
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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.
As head of the County Donegal branch of Cumann na mBan Coyle played a leading role in mobilizing her members to canvass on behalf of Sinn Féin for the 1918 general election. [7] Between 1918 and 1919 she lived for a time in Dungannon as a Gaelic League organizer before moving to County Longford to set up Cumann na mBan branches. [ 5 ]
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.
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.
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She tried to keep the Cumann going following the president's resignation, in 1941, she briefly served as Cumann na mBan's president. She served as President of the St Vincent de Paul Society (1937–1975), and also the Political Prisoners Committee until 1949; although she continued to support the Prisoners Dependants campaigns, necessarily for ...