Revolutionary Women of Tipperary 1914-1923

Talk by Noreen Higgins McHugh on the Revolutionary Women of Tipperary 1914-1923: Cumann na Mban pension and service medal applicants. Talk will cover the role of Cumann na mBan through the tumultuous periods of the War of Independence, the Truce, and the Civil War in Tipperary and East Limerick. Noreen will recount the vital role given by members such as providing ‘safe’ houses, nursing and funeral duties, carrying dispatches as well as transporting and storing guns during the War of Independence and Civil War. She will also outline the international connections of Cumann na mBan, particularly in the USA, and their collaboration with the Irish White Cross in 1921-23.