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Lillie Connolly (née Reynolds; 1867 or 1868 – 22 January 1938) was an Irish socialist and trade union organiser. She was the wife of James Connolly, the Irish revolutionary who was involved in the 1916 Easter Rising.
12 de ago. de 2016 · Lillie Connolly -- Mother And Rebel, Widow of James Connolly. Racing fruitlessly after a tram that was speeding away from him, a young British soldier spotted a shy young woman, out for a stroll in Dublin City, on her day off from working as a governess in Merrion Square. Lillie Reynolds, a softly spoken young woman who had been ...
When Lillie Connolly called to General Maxwell to collect her executed husband’s belongings, he advanced to meet her and held out his hand. She looked him straight in the eyes and held her hands behind her. Permission for the Connolly family to go to America was later refused.
Connolly and his wife had six children. Like Kathleen Clarke, Lillie Connolly gave her husband the fullest support for his socialist and revolutionary activities.
- Ronan Mcgreevy
21 de nov. de 2014 · Few of the seven women could have envisioned that they would become the widows of revolutionaries. Lillie Reynolds and Agnes Hickey fell in love with British soldiers.
- Sinéad Mccoole
Lillie Connolly, widow of James Connolly, wrote to Fenian John Devoy on 27 August 1922, to see "if any fund exists in America upon which I would have a claim" as the money she...
15 de mai. de 2022 · The documentary highlights the lives of widows including Lillie Connolly, Kathleen Clarke, Maud Gonne MacBride, Áine Ceannt, Agnes Mallin, and Grace Plunkett.
