#OnThisDay 1317 The Bruce army camped in Castleknock & planned to attack Dublin. Dubliners broke the bridge over the Liffey & burned the western suburbs to deny him access but the fire spread rapidly. This is possibly why Dublin’s crest is three towers burning.
Amelia Wilmot worked in Abbeydorney RIC barracks. ‘Between April & December 1920, she ‘procured’ 2 bombs, a rifle, a shotgun, a miniature rifle & 500 rds of .303 rifle ammo from the barracks, for the Abbeydorney Company of the 1st Kerry Brigade, IRA’.
Julia Duffy, member of Ballinalee Cumann na mBan, recorded that her house was raided several times by Black and Tans & on one occasion, she was beaten so violently that they left her with nine broken teeth which had to be extracted 3 days later.
Josephine McGowan was the first member of Cumann na mBan to die in the Revolutionary Period. McGowan fought at Marrowbone Lane during the Rising. In 1918, the DMP baton charged a crowd protesting internment & struck McGowan on the head, killing her. She was 20.
#MnáMondays
“Well behaved women seldom make history”
But even for bad ass women of Ireland, their stories were not as widely told. So, every Monday after that, I’ll post about Irish women’s military contributions that have slipped under the radar. It’s called: #MnáMondays
The Irish at War 