Máire Drumm was the vice-president of Sinn Féin and a commander in Cumann na mBan. She was killed by Ulster loyalists while recovering from an eye operation in Belfast's Mater Hospital.
Drumm during an interview with the BBC in 1976
Máire Drumm's grave
A mural in Belfast showing Drumm at Bodenstown
Drumm's memorial in Killean
Cumann na mBan, abbreviated C na mB, is an Irish republican women's paramilitary organisation formed in Dublin on 2 April 1914, merging with and dissolving Inghinidhe na hÉireann, and in 1916, it became an auxiliary of the Irish Volunteers. Although it was otherwise an independent organisation, its executive was subordinate to that of the Irish Volunteers, and later, the Irish Republican Army.
Constance Markiewicz took part in the Easter Rising and subsequently took control of Cumann na mBan in the aftermath
Executive member Bridie O'Mullane in her Cumann na mBan uniform, c. 1918
Cumann na mBan protest outside Mountjoy Prison, 23 July 1921
Republican Sinn Féin linked Cumann na mBan at Bodenstown in 2004.