Cumann na mBan and the Women of Ireland 1913-25

Kilkenny, Ireland: The Kilkenny People Ltd.. Very Good+. 1969. First Edition. Softcover. [light external soiling, very slight edgewear to covers]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) A history of the founding and early years of the Irish republican women's paramilitary organization, which was allied with the Irish Volunteers, and later, the Irish Republican Army. Its members played a role in the 1916 Easter Rising, and the organization was active in the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921). "It took the anti-Treaty side in the Civil War [and] was declared an illegal organisation by the government of the Irish Free State in 1923" (Wikipedia). . (Inventory #: 28557)