MnáMondays: Mary Shackleton Leadbeater 1798

Mary Shackleton Leadbeater, a Quaker from Ballitore Kildare, with pro-republican sympathies was a noted writer &diarist. Her ‘Annals of Ballitore’ provided a day-to-day of the 1798 Rebellion in her town &it changed hands until the Crown forces burned most of it down.

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