Dr Dorothy Stopford Price spent the Easter Rising in the home of the British Under-Secretary but her politics soon changed. After becoming a doctor, she was the medical officer for the Kilbrittain IRA &trained Cumann na mBan. Price also helped eradicate Ireland of TB
Helena Molony was an actor, trade unionist & according to the DMP “an extremist of some importance”. Molony was with the ICA when they attacked Dublin Castle & later spent time in Aylesbury Gaol. Her home was used as an IRA HQ during the Civil War.
It can be argued that the first shots of the Easter Rising were fired in Laois, not Dublin. At 7pm on Easter Sunday, Volunteers under Patrick Ramsbottom derailed a train at Coltwood to prevent troop movements to Dublin & shot at a rail worker investigating the accident.
However:
Volunteers in Coalisland, Tyrone fired shots a few hours earlier shot at an RIC barracks and assaulted a constable around 3pm, making them the first shots of the Rising.
BUT!
On March 20th, Peadar Bracken and some Volunteers fired on a hostile crowd in Tullamore, Offaly and injured an RIC Constable and they claim that they were the first shots of the Rising.
Coltwood Train
Peadar Bracken
#OnThisDay 1916 Thomas Kent was executed in Cork following a shootout with the RIC that left a constable & his brother Richard dead. In January he told a court;
“As a Volunteer, I’m prepared to defend my country to the last drop of my blood against all comers”.
#OnThisDay 1916 Con Colbert was executed in Kilmainham Gaol. He told Mrs. O’Murchadha that he was “proud to die for such a cause. I will be passing away at the dawning of the day.”
Before being executed, Colbert told the soldier to pin the napkin nearer to his heart & then shook his hand.
The Irish at War 