Sinn Féin

Despite her focus on the ICA, CCM maintained a passionate involvement with many (sometimes conflicting) groups, such as Sinn Féin , the Irish Republican Brotherhood , and the Irish Volunteers .

After moving to Ireland, CD campaigned strongly for Sinn Fein , well into her old age though not until the end of her life. At Roebuck House she was watched by a plain-clothes detective working...

About half of the seventy-three Sinn Fein members who were elected were still imprisoned. Sinn Féin boycotted the House of Commons and formed the republican parliament Dail Eireann in Dublin.

While CCM was imprisoned the Dail was declared illegal and Sinn Féin , Cumann na mBan , and other groups were proscribed. Following her release, she remained head of the Labour ministry and joined her...

ENC 's father, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, was born in about 1903 and lived until 1970.

EGB 's elder sister Constance (later Countess Markievicz ) was an Irish patriot and the first woman MP in Britain (though as a member of Sinn Féin she did not take her seat). The sisters'...

CD 's younger brother, later Sir John French , had a high-profile military career. He became a Field Marshal in 1913 and commander of the British Expeditionary Force in Europe at the start of the...