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Nora Connolly O'Brien (14 November 1892 – 17 June 1981) was an Irish politician, activist and writer. She was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1957 to 1969.
O'Brien, Nora Connolly (1892–1981), republican and socialist activist, was born on 14 November 1892 at 6 Lothian Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, second among six daughters and one son of James Connolly (qv), of Edinburgh, the socialist republican leader (at the time, labourer, journalist and secretary of the Scottish Socialist Federation), and ...
25 de abr. de 2018 · Born in Edinburgh in 1893, Nora Connolly-O’Brien was the daughter of well-known socialist James Connolly. She spent her early years travelling with her family to Scotland, America and Ireland. Her father nurtured her early political and intellectual abilities, leading to lifelong feminism.
22 de jun. de 2006 · Nora Connolly O’Brien remained a lifelong socialist republican and was a strong supporter of the protesting prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh in the 1980s, speaking on platforms in their support. Nora Connolly O’Brien died in Dublin on 17 June 1981.
Nora Connolly O'Brien, James Connolly's daughter, founded the Belfast branch of Cumann na mBan. In this extraordinary interview, she talks about her memories of the lead up to the...
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Writing some fifty years after what is often referred to simply as the Rising, Fiona Connolly Edwards, youngest daughter of another executed leader, the socialist leader James Connolly, recalled with clarity her cold terror every time she passed a British soldier on the street in the aftermath of the rebellion. 2 Nor was this response necessaril...
23 de set. de 2016 · Under her command, the 23-year-old Nora Connolly and nine other members of Cumann na mBann returned to Dublin to take part in the Rising and were the only organised group to leave Ulster to participate.
