Sinn Féin

CCM returned home to further conflict. Shortly after losing her seat in the Pact Election of June 1922, she joined the IRA Irregulars in a violent seizure of prominent public buildings, the Four Courts, in...

Next February she wrote to Ethel Smyth that the Black and Tans were worse than Sinn Féin (the Republicans). Smyth, as an Englishwoman, found this hard to believe. When the Republicans took for themselves (virtually...

The reason for her fact-finding visit in 1921 was that ES had been asked to be a speaker in a campaign to raise awareness in Britain about the Irish situation, and she felt that she...

The principal participants were CCM , Helena Molony , and Bulmer Hobson (Constance's husband was in the Ukraine). They held Fianna camps there, and commuted back into Dublin for Sinn Féin and Inghinidhe na hEireann

This remained the only one of her novels to deal with the troubles in Ireland. It is set in June 1921, a month in which the prospect of an Irish Free State was growing but...

The play's title is a near-translation of the phrase Sinn Féin (we ourselves, name of the political party committed to ending British rule in Ireland). AD emphasises the relationship between the political and...

KT also discusses here the poor working and living conditions she found in Dublin in 1911. In other chapters she describes the rural Irish lifestyle, a way of life to which she had to adjust...