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'SÉ MO BHÁRÚIL

I measc na laochra a throid ar son na saoirse i 1916 bhí thart ar 100 mná, cathlann iomlánn scaipthe fríd na garastúin uilig.
Ach le céad blian anuas, tá an fhirinne sin cailte againn. Le linn céiliúradh an caoga blian i 1966, ba í Constance Markiewicz an t-aon bhean amháin a bhí trácht uirthi, an SuperWoman a cuir brístí uirthi fhéin chun dul in éadan forsaí na hImpireachta.

Bhí mé ag macnamh ar sin is mé ag amharc ar clár teilifíse "Queen of Ireland".
De réir dealraimh, ní raibh duine aerach ar bith in Éirinn go dtí gur chuir Rory O'Neill gúna "uirthi fhéin" chun dul in éadan homafóibe. Nílim ag caitheamh scath ar an méid atá bainte amach ag PantiBliss, go háirithe an ról ceannródach a bhí aici san sracadh ar son comhionnais pósta. Ach bhí daoine ann roimpi. Daoine cosúil le Kathleen Lynn a chuaigh amach ar maidin Luain na Cásca chun sochaí níos fearr a tógáil dúinn. Glacaim buíochas le PantiBliss ach táim iontach bródúil as Kathleen Lynn agus a deirfiúracha.

AMHARC EILE

ffrench-Mullen and Kathleen Lynn
ffrench-Mullen met Kathleen Lynn through Inghinidhe na h-Éireann. She moved into Lynn's Belgrave Road, Rathmines home in 1915, and they shared a life until ffrench-Mullen's death in 1944, living together in Rathmines for 30 years.
ffrench-Mullen recorded in her prison diary in 1916 that she could face prison without fear once Lynn and she were together. Katherine Lynch of the Women's Studies Centre at University College Dublin describes them as partners, calling them part of a network of lesbians living in Dublin—which included Helena Molony, Louie Bennett and Elizabeth O'Farrell—who met through the suffrage movement and later became involved with the national and trade union movement.

FOINSE: Wikipedia

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