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Nationalist Marcella Cosgrave died in 1938. Member of Ladies Land League, founding member of Inghinidhe na hÉireann then Cumann na mBan. She served in Easter Rising at Marrowbone Lane. As quartermaster, she commandeered a cow for milk to feed the garrison! One of arrested and held at Richmond Barracks.

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