Maighréad Uí Luasa

Maighréad Uí Luasa: Risked job and arrest. Credit O Luasa Family

An active Cumann na mBan member since the age of 20 and from a well-known republican family, Blarney Street’s Maighréad Uí Luasa was another woman who risked her job, arrest and imprisonment during this time.

A shorthand typist at Crosse & Blackwell food cannery on Morrison’s Quay, from her desk Maighréad covertly typed dispatches referring to planned IRA ambushes and other highly-sensitive
material.