Cumann na mBan badge

"Sara Kealy was seventeen when she walked into Jacob's factory on Easter Monday 1916 and joined the revolution: "We were in on Monday when the Angelus was ringing." This is her 1917 Cumann na mBan badge; in 1917 Sara was collecting money for the destitute dependants of those killed or imprisoned after the Rising - and preparing for a new war. When the War of Independence continued, this intrepid working-class northsider was one of the unacknowledged helpers of Michael Collins' Squad. "You will agree we cannot say too much on paper," one of the witnesses to her Military Pension application said, offering to tell more in person…"