English @ SUNY Geneseo | Cathrine McNeil | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/cathrinemcneil/activity/ Activity feed for Cathrine McNeil. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 979fdb4c06626557f3e1d0c2c680ef85 Cathrine McNeil edited the blog post Fianna Boys in the group Irish Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11531/ Sat, 08 Dec 2018 20:05:11 -0500 Return to Homepage

Not only did women participate in the rising but also Irish children. The Fianna boys consisted of boys and girls from the ages of eight to eighteen.  The organization of these children […]

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Constance Gore-Booth, who would later become the Countess Markievicz was of planter stock and from an English noble family.  With her background, she was an unlikely candidate to become […]

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Margaret Skinnider traversed Dublin with despatches for the Republic of Ireland during the Easter Rising.  She was an intelligent teacher who had an infinity for mathematics and calculus.  S […]

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Cathleen ni Houlihan

In Cathleen ni Houlihan by William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory, the play was used metaphorically to encourage young men to resist English ways and fight for their […]

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