"The Dangerous Ladies" - Irish Female Prisoners Association...

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"The Dangerous Ladies" - Irish Female Prisoners

Association Copy: O'Grady (Standish) The Coming of Cuchulain, 8vo D. n.d. Orig. cloth, d.w. Now in a Custom made cloth box. (1)

* This copy, inscribed on front and back with the signatures of approx. 39 female Republican prisoners at Kilmainham Jail and North Dublin Union, 1923. Under the heading 'The Dangerous Ladies', the signatures include Maighread Bean Ui Bhuachalla, Comdt. B. Wing; Lil Mc Clean, 129 B Wing; Lili Ni Bhriain; Sinead Ni Chumhail; Maighread Ni Chobhthaigh; Mary Bourke-Dowling; Sighle Nic Amhlaoibh (Humphreys); Mollie Hyland; Judy Gaughran; Maebhe Nic Eanaigh (Mountjoy, N.D.U.); Nellie Groarke; Mrs. Byrne; Josephine Evers Whippett; Angie Browne; Cecilia Gallagher; Eibhlin Nic Ghairbhith; Maire Ni Choimin; Marie Ni Chonghaile; Kate M. Breen; Mary Kenny; May Jones; Agnes Coyne; Tessie Doyle, 'one of the Five Night Birds'; (and at rear) Caitlin Ni Bhriain Chorceaigh; Emma Menamin; Francis Casey; Agnes Sheehy; Kid Bulfin, Drimlough House, Birr; Julia Hassett; Sighle Ni Bhoinn, Tigh na mBocht; Peg Walsh; Maureen Moore; Nora Brosnan; Lena O'Doherty; Dorothy Hannafin, and others.

* A truly remarkable collection of signatures.