Rosita Sweetman: Dublin ‘hidey hole’ love story cut short

It was in Seabank that great aunt Winifred fell in love with dashing freedom fighter, the deputy chief of staff of the IRA, and minister for home affairs Austin Stack

Winifred set about turning Seabank into a depot for the making and distribution of first aid supplies for the IRA fighters in need of refuge. One such fighter was deputy chief of staff Austin Stack. File Picture: Niall Carson/PA

Banging

around in the vaults of family history that is the inside of my head, social media, books, news clippings, friends, and the internet, I stumbled onto a startling and rather wonderful revelation: My great aunt was a feminist and a revolutionary.