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Unlikely Rebels The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish ~ Grace Gifford is one of the tragic stories of the 1916 Easter Rising but the poignancy of her brief marriage to the executed rebel leader Joseph Mary Plunkett has tended to overshadow her familys deep commitment to the cause of the Irish Republic Grace was the second youngest of twelve children
Unlikely Rebels The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish ~ This true story of the Gifford girls is about six Irish sisters raised as Protestants in a welltodo familly but who sympathized and worked for the Republicans seeking Irish freedom from England hence the title Unlikely Rebels While Grace Gifford is perhaps the best known due to her marriage to Joseph Plunkett the night before he was executed for his part in the Easter Rising of 1916 all of the sisters were involved in supporting this fight
Unlikely Rebels The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish ~ Grace was the second youngest of twelve children Despite coming from a strongly unionist background and being raised in the Protestant faith the Gifford sisters became heavily involved with the republican Irish movement and with the fight for Irish freedom
Sisters under the green flag The Irish Times ~ BIOGRAPHY Unlikely Rebels The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom By Anne Clare Mercier Press 319pp €1699 WHILE WE KNOW that support for and activism in Irish nationalism often ran in families it is unusual to find a large family divided along gender lines on the issues
Customer reviews Unlikely Rebels The Gifford ~ The daughters supported Irish home rule through their writing fundraising and active participation in the Easter Rising and the subsequent wars Two of the sisters served prison terms for their antiEnglish activities The best known sister is Grace Gifford
Book Review Unlikely Rebels – The Gifford Girls and the ~ Unlikely Rebels The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom is a well written account of the role which the Gifford sisters – Grace Muriel NellieAda Kate and Sydney – were to play in 1916 and the struggle for independence They were ‘unlikely rebels’ as they were the daughters of Unionist parents Frederick and Isabella Gifford
Unlikely rebels the Gifford girls and the fight for ~ Unlikely rebels the Gifford girls and the fight for Irish freedom Anne Clare The Gifford sisters Grace later Plunkett Muriel later MacDonagh Nellie later Donnelly and Sydney later Czira were key figures in the republican struggle during the 1916 period
Gifford sisters Wikipedia ~ Gifford sisters The Gifford sisters were prominent republicans during the Irish revolutionary period who were daughters of Frederick and Isabella Gifford middleclass Dublin unionists Two were married to signatories of the 1916 Proclamation
Gifford The Irish Story ~ Unlikely Rebels The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom is a well written account of the role which the Gifford sisters Recent Comments JohnDorney on The Army Mutiny of 1924 and the Opening of the Army Inquiry Papers
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