#OnThisDay 1916 Michael O’Hanrahan, a novelist from Wexford, was executed in Kilmainham Gaol. His last words to Fr. Augustine as he was led out to the Stone Breakers’ Yard to be shot were:
‘Father, I’d like it if you saw my mother and sisters and consoled them’
Constance Markievicz (nee Gore Booth) was a revolutionary, politician & more. She joined the ICA, Sinn Féin, CnB, paid to feed strikers from her own pocket in 1913, fought in 1916, became the first woman elected to Westminster & first female cabinet holder in Europe.
Molly O’Reilly was only 14 when she hoisted the Gold Harp flag over Liberty Hall before the Easter Rising began. Molly had helped out during the Dublin Lockout, hid guns from the Howth Gun Running in her home &spied on British soldiers during the War of Independence.
Dr. Brigid Lyons Thornton joined Cumann na mBan in 1915. During the Rising, she took care of the wounded fighting around the Four Courts. In 1922 Lyons was the youngest medical school graduate in NUIG &the only woman commissioned as an officer in the Free State Army.
#OnThisDay 1957 Fr Aloysius Roche passed away. Fr. Roche had helped carry the surrender order to various Volunteer positions after the Easter Rising. He also gave the Last Rites to Pearse, MacDonagh, Clarke & accompanied Connolly from hospital to Kilmainham.
The Irish at War 