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Mabel Washington Fitzgerald (4 July 1884 – 24 April 1958) was an Irish republican, suffragette, and socialist. She took part in the 1916 Easter Rising and the Irish War of Independence. She was the mother of Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald and wife of Desmond FitzGerald.
28. März 2016 · She was born Mabel McConnell to a line of Presbyterian farmers in County Antrim; her father became managing director of a distillery owned by the unionist Craig family. The two McConnell...
Protestant republican is Mabel FitzGerald, née McConnell (1884-1958). Mabel, if she is recalled at all, is remembered as the wife of 1916 rebel and Irish Free State politician Desmond FitzGerald, or, as mother of former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.3 However, Mabel
13. Juni 2016 · This article offers an assessment of the career and ideology of the Irish republican and Cumann na mBan activist Mabel FitzGerald, née McConnell (1884–1958). From a staunchly Unionist Belfast Presbyterian family, Mabel converted to republicanism while an undergraduate in the early 1900s. In 1911 she eloped with Desmond FitzGerald ...
- Conor Morrissey
- 2016
“Much the more political of the two”: Mabel FitzGerald and the Irish revolution Abstract: This article offers an assessment of the career and ideology of the Irish republican and Cumann na mBan activist Mabel FitzGerald, née McConnell (1884–1958).
Mabel McConnell, born in 1884, was the daughter of a Belfast Presbyterian. Having met Desmond FitzGerald at Gaelic League classes, they married in 1911 and subsequently had four sons. The youngest – future Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach – Garret FitzGerald was born in 1926.
Mabel Washington Fitzgerald was an Irish republican, suffragette, and socialist. She took part in the 1916 Easter Rising and the Irish War of Independence. She was the mother of Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald and wife of Desmond FitzGerald.
