#Cumann na mBan

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#OTD in 1914 – Cumann na mBan, Irish women’s Republican movement, was founded.

Ní saoirse go saoirse na mban. Over 100 women gathered in Dublin to discuss the role of women in the lead-up to revolution. The meeting, at Wynn’s Hotel, was presided over by Agnes O’Farrelly. The first provisional committee of Cumann na mBan included Agnes MacNeill, Nancy O’Rahilly, Mary Colum, Jenny Wyse Power, Louise Gavan Duffy and Elizabeth Bloxham. They adopted a constitution which stated…

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Eva Gore-Booth (left) and older sister Constance Markievicz

Countess Markievicz - The making of a rebel Countess

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Cumann na mBan and the Irish Civil War

Despite the many challenges facing them, women were not passive observers of the Irish War of Independence or the Irish Civil War. Many women joined Cumann na mBan, a nationalist organization that worked closely with Sinn Fein and the IRA to achieve an independent Ireland. Cumann na mBan would be the first organization to reject the treaty and provide the anti-treaty side with its iron and…

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Margaret Skinnider (1892 -1971) pictured in the centre.

She was a Scottish-Irish teacher, Irish Revolutionary, member of Cumann na mBan, Easter Rising veteran, sniper, Irish Civil War veteran, trade unionist, feminist, and lesbian. Her partner was Nora O'Keefe, a fellow revolutionary, feminist and trade unionist.

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Cumann na mBan is an Irish republican women's paramilitary organisation

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Samhain is soon!

"My father loved his country

And sleeps within its breast

While I that would have died for her

Must never so be blessed"

Samhain will dawn, from the sunset or the 31st till the sunset on the 1st of November! How honourable a day it, when Celtic men are proud and glad of their hearth and kindred. But as we celebrate and invite spirits of all walks while warding off mischievous fairies we cannot forget in our mourning of them and the deeds they have done. For though Samhain blankets us with the year’s first frost, we must celebrate more than the end of the harvest or the spirits of our ancestors. For there are those who fought and died that we might live on more.

Our history is full of those who stood against colonial powers, and tonight, I light a candle for the brave souls who fought in battles and uprisings. There is no greater honour than to give ones life for their Celtic race. Brave men like William Wallace! Of course, not the Hollywood version played by Kiwi anti Semite but the real man who rallied a nation with grit and resilience. Or the fierce and venerable Gaelic women of Cumann na mBan who resisted in the fight for Irish independence and never surrendered. And how can I remove honour from who fought silently? Those that continued to speak our languages, customs, and beliefs when both state and society tried to erase them? The faithful elect who lived away for centuries in shame and dishonour? All for that hopeful promise that their country would survive and our fathers legacy would not be stained by the filth and the impure stain of collaboration?

Our race is going to survive. Despite everyone and everything her tongue and blood have endured. Despite England we are still here, Despite the Danes we are still here and despite the Romans we are still here and we will outlive them. What remains now of Rome? That great Empire which conquered the Brythonics but were taught rightly in the misty hills of Alba? It's now simply ruins while our people still live, while our race still beats high with hope. The Danes? What remains of the Viking hordes who were beaten by the Gaels of Eirinn and Alba? Or of the proud Saxon? Who was resisted, with varying fortunes, by all Celts bar our Vretoned brothers?

We are just one race, all of us. The seed of the Gael and Brythonics must join hands for Celtdom and Celtdom alone. No more foreign imposition and diktat which brings only misery nor internal petty squabbles but instead a single host. A single flag, a single race which will surely be glorious. Once the Celts unite you can be sure that the vile Saxon will abandon his post and lose his fighting spirit. Once the Celts unite we will again be prosperous, trade and wealth will flow freely between the nations. The Celtic Man is naturally industrious and an intellectual with great venerable attributes. Alas, sadly, who is pulled down by foreign impositions of vice like alcoholism, drugs and the like which has made our race weak. We have fallen asleep, a deep sleep of domestication, of being conquered, of sufferance and shame with great dishonour. Which infest every carpet or our society, but if the promised day comes and all the Celts awaken then the dogs shall become wild again! And the wild dogs will chase out the foreigner and the traitor and the Celtic spirit will never again be wrong to us. I guarantee a united Celtic nation would become a prospoerus Republic within ten years of unity. It would surpas the living standards within five and he comparable only to the Nordic lands within ten and would surely outgrow them. We are an industrious race of hard workers, of intelligent men and woman and a race deeply stubborn and proud and those are good things! If we work hard the Celts can achieve anything under the sun and we will obtain our dream of a prosperous, peaceful, stable and loving pan Celtic state from Scotland till Kernow till Vreton.

I have total confidence that this will happen, it's a divine promise. I've done some early divination for the year and I am certain it's due to happen. I can give no date but all the signs suggest that the lot awaited day is coming. I'm unsure if I should ever had the great joy of seeing it but probably not.

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So I’m aware this is not the kind of stuff I normally post but I just wanted to share this knowledge with you because I think it’s amazing. So right in Dublin City centre there’s this park called Stephens Green. And it’s a relatively normal looking park next to tonnes of shops. But in the year 1916 it was the site of one of the biggest conflicts in the Easter/1916 Rising in which some Irish Republican paramilitaries (not the IRA they didn’t exist yet) tried to overthrow British rule in Ireland and get a republic so Irish people could run their own affairs. It’s one of the most significant events in Irish history because, though it was an utter military failure due to frankly ridiculously small numbers and firearms, it is seen as one of the defining events that led to our independence in 1921 after the war of independence.

So during this conflict the rebels took over the park due to its location in the city centre. They barricaded the gates and dug trenches. This was called the battle of St Stephens Green. The British soldiers were lined up outside surrounding it with guns and the conflict raged on for days with several civilians as well as members of both parties being killed and injured. But during this one groundskeeper by the name of James Kearney decided he had higher priorities. Twice a day the Irish Citizens Army and Cumann na mBan (two Irish military forces that i feel it should be mentioned that the former allowed women operate on the same level as men within its ranks and the latter was solely comprised of women though much smaller) called a truce with the British army so that he could feed the ducks. Yes you read that right. In the height of the battle with bullets flying back and forth over trenches they would call a truce for like twenty minutes so this man could get past the barricades to feed the ducks. Only in Ireland.

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#OTD in 1892 – Birth of revolutionary and feminist, Margaret Skinnider, in Coatbridge, Scotland. She fought during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.

‘Scotland is my home, but Ireland my country.’ –Margaret Skinnider Margaret Skinnider was born to immigrant parents from Co Monaghan. She became a mathematics teacher in Scotland and was active in the women’s suffrage movement. She also joined the Glasgow branches of the Irish Volunteers and Cumann na mBan in 1914; she also joined the women’s rifle club, becoming a first class shot. She was…

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I'm not sure if I've asked this before so ignore if I have but what things do you wish were taught about more in Irish history i secondary schools/universities? I personally always found it disgraceful how little Cumann na mBan is that about and how we weren't taught about the fact that the Black and Tans weren't just British, but irish soldiers that fought in ww1 too.

Ok so let me preface this by saying that my secondary school experience was extremely nontraditional in ways I don't want to get into + I did not attend secondary school in ireland & so I everything I know about irish history in regular irish secondary schools or regular secondary schools anywhere else is secondhand -- so forgive me if this is something that ppl actually are taught & I just don't know about it. anyway with that over with this is very specific but I wish that people were taught more about the influence of the french revolution on the invention of irish republicanism. not even in a people need to be more pro-revolution way, I just wish that more people would acknowledge the fact that the united irishmen and their contemporaries, though they obviously grew to be extremely unimpressed with the french after the bantry bay disaster, were directly inspired by the frev in many many ways and even took some of the ideas that people praise them for directly from it, rather than pretending like the UI being similar to groups like the jacobins was either an accident or not important. also, relatedly, I wish that, when teaching about how important the frev was for the development of the UI, people stopped doing the thing where they act like the jacobins in france were the most evil thing in the entire world but the people in dublin or belfast who held the exact same beliefs were right about everything because that is, to put it diplomatically, a completely nonsensical way to think about it. again I'm not insisting everyone love robespierre forever but let's be consistent here at least

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Episode 59 - Cumann na mBan During the Irish Civil War

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I just watched Suffragette (2015) which was a alright film about an ordinary woman’s deepening involvement with the suffragettes in 1912.

At the end of the film there was a little list of when some countries gave women the vote. Women acquired the right to vote in 1918 in the UK and Ireland, provided they were over 30 and owned land. 1928 for all women. New Zealand, 1893. Australia, 1902. Norway, 1913. Russia, 1917. Austria, Germany and Poland, 1918. USA, 1920. Brazil, 1932. Turkey, 1934. France, 1944. Italy, 1945. China and India, 1949. Mexico, 1953. Switzerland, 1971. Jordan, 1974. Nigeria, 1976. Qatar, 2003. Saudi Arabia, 2015.

It got me thinking. When did Irish women get the right to vote? 1918 obviously, same as the UK. But all Irish women got to vote from 1922 - six years before the UK. The Saorstát Éireann was remarkably progressive for its time. The Easter Rising was full of women fighting for their country - Cumann na mBan were an integral part of the plans. Ireland was one of the first countries to directly address women in the constitution. Things took a major dip after that thanks to the increased hold the Catholic Church had on the country, and Éamon de Valera’s anti-feminism stance but we’re moving forward now. Women can hold jobs after marriage and get divorced and use birth control and marry other women and get abortions. Religion is good and kind, but corrupt religious institutions with too much power are not. How many other countries are currently going through their oppressive power structure phase? Why is equality for women still something people are fighting about, over a century later? We’ve come so far but yet still have so far to go.

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Loving the cumann na mBan flag by your desk ✊️

:)

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Su Beresford Place, di fronte la Liberty Hall, si trova la statua in bronzo a grandezza naturale di James Connolly. L'opera, eretta a Dublino nel 1996, è stata creata dal grande artista irlandese Eamonn O'Doherty. Non è un caso che il memoriale del rivoluzionario scozzese si trovi proprio nei pressi dell'edificio che oggi ospita gli uffici del più grande sindacato d'Irlanda, il SIPTU Trade: proprio qui, nel lontano 1916, molti membri dell'Irish Citizen Army e del Cumann na mBan si riunirono la mattina del lunedì di Pasqua, prima di assumere le posizioni loro assegnate e prima dell'eroico assalto al General Post Office. Assalto che lo vide assoluto protagonista. Dietro alla maestosa figura di Connolly, ecco comparire in basso una delle sue citazioni più celebri, "The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland, The cause of Ireland is the cause of labour": parole che dimostrano la grandezza del personaggio James Connolly. Rivoluzionario, sindacalista, scrittore, patriota. 🇮🇪✊️⛓️

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Cherish the Ladies #683

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1:24 - Natalie Padilla "Fifty - eight Years” from Paths and Places

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8:42 - The Drowsy Lads "Next Market Day (feat. Jesse Powers and Ryan Hall)_The Drowsy Lads_Time Flies” from Time Flies

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35:46 - Cherish the Ladies "Lord Inchiquin / Sweeneys Dream / Johnny Henrys / Thady Caseys Fancy" from Cherish the Ladies Ultimate Christmas Mix

40:42 - INTERVIEW WITH CHERISH THE LADIES

47:45 - Cherish The Ladies "The Cat's Meow" from An Irish Homecoming  -  Live from Bucknell University

51:13 - INTERVIEW WITH CHERISH THE LADIES

55:16 - Cherish the Ladies with Deirdre Connolly "The Broom of the Cowdenknowes" from The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone

59:43 – THANKS

I hope you enjoyed that interview as much as I did. It was well worth the wait it took to make this interview happen. Joanie is absolutely delightful. You can find out more about the group at CherishTheLadies.com . And make sure you pick up a copy of their USBs if you get a chance to see them live.

1:01:53 - Bealtaine "We're Coming Back" from The Founders' Room

1:05:38 - River Drivers "Cumann Na Mban" from Live At Steelstacks

1:09:05 - Fidra "Mortal Boy" from The Running Wave

1:14:16 - Mànran "Standing Still" from single

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1:18:34 - Alexis Chartrand & Nicolas Babineau "Le batteux” from Écoutez tous

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Last Sat (10/12), my wife and I participated in a Trunk or Treat that was hosted by the Shelby Country Humane Society and as you can see in the picture, we went heavily into a cat theme. I found a cat based trunk or treat kit that was cat centric, we took our Sphynx cat that we rescued through a TNR effort and added various cat base items inside the trunk area including pages from a Star Trek Cat calendar and my wife even dressed up as a cat where as I simply dressed as a TNRer.

To top it all off, I even set up a speaker playing a cat song playlist consisting of your Whiskers in The Jar album and Lord of the Pounce.

Unfortunately, everyone was so distracted by our cat, nobody noticed the music.  But we enjoyed it!

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Estella Francis Solomons (1882-1968) pintora y grabadora irlandesa.

Provenía de una destacada familia judía de Dublín, donde nació. Hija de Maurice Solomons y de la poeta Rosa Jane Jacobs. Su padre era óptico y también fue vicecónsul de Austria-Hungría.

La familia Solomons, que llegó a Dublín desde Inglaterra en 1824, es una de las líneas continuas de judíos más antiguas de Irlanda.

Estudió en la Escuela de Arte Metropolitana de Dublín donde ingresó con 16 años y en la Escuela de Arte de Chelsea. 

Fue miembro de Cumann na mBan y estuvo activa durante el período revolucionario.

 Se destacó por sus retratos de contemporáneos del movimiento republicano y su estudio fue una casa segura durante la Guerra de Independencia de Irlanda.

Se casó en 1925, ella tenía entonces 43 años, con el poeta Seumas O'Sullivan, fundador de The Dublin Magazine, y ayudó a mantener la revista económicamente.

 La pareja organizó salones regulares en su casa que atrajeron a artistas, escritores, políticos e intelectuales irlandeses. 

Solomons era amiga íntima de la escritora Kathleen Goodfellow, a quien conoció en Cumann na mBan y que era patrocinadora de The Dublin Magazine.  Solomons fue elegida miembro honorario de la Royal Hibernian Academy en 1966, habiendo sido asociada desde 1925. 

Falleció en Dublín.

Le ponemos cara con su Autorretrato.