Witness Statement Brighid Malone
Witness statement of Brighid Malone (nee Breathnach) (WS617), a member of Cumann na mBan, who acted as a courier from Galway to Dublin on Holy Thursday 1916.
"Father Henry Feeney of Clarenbridge sent for me to Tipperary and he told me there was to be a rising. The next day - on Holy Thursday - he sent me to Dublin to fetch a message for Liam Mellows. At Craughwell station Tom Kenny, the local blacksmith who was favourable to the Citizen Army, met me and asked me to take a written message to Tom Clarke and another either Sean McDermott or James Connolly; I am not sure now."
Object Details
Creator:
Bureau of Military History
Date:
1951-11-29
Place:
Dublin, Ireland, Galway
Format:
Institution:
Rights:
© Irish Defence Forces, Bureau of Military History
Type:
Subject:
- Witnesses,
- Curated Collection--Communicating the Rising,
- Curated Collection--Women and the Rising,
- Paramilitary forces--Cumann na mBan,
- Paramilitary forces--Irish Citizen Army,
- Connolly, James (1868–1916),
- Mac Diarmada (MacDermott), Seán (1883–1916),
- Women Revolutionaries,
- Curated Collection--Remembering the Rising
Era:
Language:
English
