Helena Molony

Standard Name: Molony, Helena

Connections

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politics Constance Countess Markievicz
She was also elected to the committee that produced the new Inine journal Bean na h-Eireann (meaning woman of Ireland).She was introduced to the Inine group by Helena Molony , an activist who met...
politics Constance Countess Markievicz
CCM held training camps for the boys (initially at her home) at which, with Helena Molony and others, she gave them lessons in Gaelic, drills, and firearm handling. The new group was criticized by Arthur Griffith
politics Constance Countess Markievicz
CCM was first imprisoned at Kilmainham and Mountjoy prisons in Dublin. As support began to grow for the Easter rebels (many now martyrs to the cause), she was moved to Aylesbury Jail in England...
Residence Constance Countess Markievicz
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
Textual Production Maud Gonne
The nationalist women's organization MG founded, the Daughters of Erin , created Bean na hÉireann (Woman of Ireland), a nationalist monthly for women. MG was present for the meeting at which Helena Molony proposed the...

Timeline

1 June 1912: Women suffragists, nationalists and trades...

National or international item

1 June 1912

Women suffragists, nationalists and trades unionists held a mass meeting in Dublin to insist that female suffrage be included in the Home Rule Bill; their demands were ignored by the Irish Parliamentary Party .
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
51-3
Ward, Margaret. “’Suffrage First--Above All Else!’ An Account of the Irish Suffrage Movement”. Feminist Review, Vol.
10
, 1982, pp. 21-36.
27

Texts

Molony, Helena, editor. Bean na hÉireann.