Mary MacSwiney Ireland's last true republican

Often overshadowed by Countess Markievicz, Cork woman via England, Mary MacSwiney was a revolutionary who was considered to be Ireland's last true Republican.  This week we talk about her contribution to the Irish Republican cause and subsequent potted legacy Notes/ References Royal Irish Academy Dictionary of Irish Biography, Mary MacSwiney by Brian Murphy Ordinary Women in Extraordinary Times: Eleven Cork Women in the Revolutionary Years 1916-1923 by Shandon Area History Group Ireland’s Suffragettes by  Sarah Beth Watkins Oireachtas Debates December 1921 Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives from History by Marian Broderick