MnáMondays: Lily Bennett the Second Female Death of the the Civil War 1922

Lily Bennett was the second Cumann na mBan member to be killed during the Irish Civil War. Bennett was attending a rally held by The Republican Prisoners’ Defence Committee in Dublin when a convoy of National troops machine-gunned the crowd, mortally wounding Lily.

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