Josephine Ryan
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Mary Josephine Ryan was an Irish Nationalist. A member of Cumann na mBan and the honorary secretary of the executive committee, she took part in the 1916 Easter Rising and the War of Independence.
Ryan and husband Richard Mulcahy
Richard Mulcahy
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Richard James Mulcahy was an Irish Fine Gael politician and army general who served as Minister for Education from 1948 to 1951 and 1954 to 1957, Minister for the Gaeltacht from June 1956 to October 1
Josephine Ryan
…give John Devoy (the leader of the American based Irish republican organization Clan na Gael) a first-hand account of the Rising. She married General Richard Mulcahy on 2 June 1919 in Dublin. They had six children: Padraic, Seán, Risteárd, Elizabeth, Neillí, and Maura. At the beginning of their marriage, they lived…
Mulcahy, c. early 1920s
Commemorative relief of General Richard Mulcahy at Collins Barracks, Dublin
Richard Mulcahy commemorated on the grounds of Dublin secondary school Saint MacDara's in Templeogue