Female Spies in the Irish War of Independence

Women played a minor role in the Easter Rising of 1916. But they became crucial intelligene agents in the Anglo-Irish War.

Kate Schaefer | Published in History Today Volume 68 Issue 8 August 2018

Republican women recite the Rosary outside Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison following the execution of IRA member Thomaas Traynor during the Anglo-Irish War.

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