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was endemic in
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Ffrench-Mullen's interest in politics started young, Her father was a committed
Parnellite and their Dundrum home was a campaign headquarters. She was a radical feminist and republican during her life. Like many other of the time she regarded it as a woman's right to vote. She joined the
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Madeleine ffrench-Mullen died in a Dublin nursing home on 26 May 1944, aged 63. She is interred with her parents, St
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Madeleine ffrench-Mullen was born on 30 December 1880 in Malta, where her father, St
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garrison. In St
Stephen's Green she was in command of the 15 Citizen Army women who set up a medical station and field kitchen. While occupying St Stephen's Green, she and her comrades came under sustained heavy fire from the
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and buildings on the north side of the Green. After the surrender of the
College of Surgeons garrison ffrench-Mullen was one of the 77 women who had fought in the Rising who were imprisoned, among them her life partner
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Ffrench-Mullen recorded in her prison diary in 1916 that she could face prison without fear once Lynn (whom she referred to as "the Doctor") and she were together. Katherine Lynch of the Women's
Studies Centre at
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movement, and met women with a similar worldview and values. The women's suffrage movement was included in the
Movements of Extremists reports of the
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from prison. Lynn can be seen to the left of centrally placed
Markievicz, while ffrench-Mullen is to the left of Lynn, dressed in men's clothes.
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This photograph from March 1919 shows Lynn and ffrench-Mullen attending a party celebrating the release of
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describes them as partners, calling them part of a network of lesbians living in Dublin—which included
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The house shared by Kathleen Lynn and Madeleine ffrench Mullen.
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Guerrilla Warfare in the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921
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Madeleine ffrench-Mullen and Kathleen Lynn established
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