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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 ...
Instead, the siblings were offered to join the female auxiliary wing of the IRA (called Cumann na mBan), which they immediately rejected because they didn’t want to be relegated to “rolling ...
Leslie Mary de Barra (née Price; 9 January 1893 – 9 April 1984) was an Irish nationalist and republican active during the Easter Rising of 1916, the War of Independence and the Civil War, becoming Director of Cumann na mBan. She went on to be chairman and President of the Irish Red Cross. [1]
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Dolours Price was born on 16 December 1950 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. [1] [2] She and her sister, Marian, also an IRA member, were the daughters of Albert Price, a prominent Irish republican and former IRA member from Belfast [3] and Christina (née Dolan), a member of Cumann na mBan.
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.
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.
Like The O'Rahilly, she changed her name from the original Rahilly. In April 1914 she was one of a small group of women present at the founding of Cumann na mBan in Wynne's Hotel, Dublin. [2] Following the death of her brother The O'Rahilly in combat in 1916 she was arrested and detained in the aftermath of the Easter rising. She provided the ...