Chris’s Reviews > Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923 > Status Update

"At the time of the Rising the terrifying Matron, Aileen Keogh, who cropped her hair, smoked cheroots and for relaxation felled large trees with an axe, cycled to Dublin, threw herself into the fray and was arrested; apparently her guarding officer was an old Mount St Benedict boy who at the sight of her turned tail and fled." Sounds like someone I'd like to meet! As an adult.