Margaret Skinnider

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Margaret Skinnider


Born
in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland
May 28, 1892

Died
October 10, 1971

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Margaret Skinnider was a revolutionary and feminist born in Coatbridge, Scotland. She fought during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin as a sniper, among other roles, and was the only woman wounded in the action. She was mentioned three times for bravery in the dispatches sent to the Dublin GPO. She described her role as a sniper at St. Stephen's Green in her autobiography, Doing My Bit for Ireland, published in New York in 1917. ...more

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“Skinnider spent seven weeks in hospital and was incredulous that the leaders of the rising were executed. “We had obeyed all rules of war and surrendered as formally as any army ever capitulated.”
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