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Maire Comerford
1893–1982
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Occupation
- writer
Mary Eva Comerford (2 June 1893 â 15 December 1982) was an Irish republican from County Wexford.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Mountjoy PrisonDates unknown
- Kilmainham GaolDates unknown
Biography
Mary Eva Comerford (2 June 1893 â 15 December 1982) was an Irish republican from County Wexford. As a member of Cumann na mBan she witnessed the events of 1916 to 1923 and took an active part in the Irish War of Independence. She opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921. During the Irish Civil War she fought against the Irish Free State, being imprisoned and wounded by gunfire, and went on hunger strike. She was later a journalist for The Irish Press. Comerford remained an opponent of partition and the Free State until her death. Her memoir of the Irish revolutionary period, On Dangerous Ground, was published posthumously in 2021. The British newspaper, The Daily Mail, called her "the Jeanne d'Arc of the Republican cause".
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