Alice Ginnell was the first woman Election Agent in Ireland or Great Britain.
18 Facts About Alice Ginnell
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Alice Ginnell got her education from the Loreto Convent boarding school in Navan, County Meath.
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Ginnell was the second wife of Laurence Ginnell and married him on 30 January 1902 in Rochfortbridge, County Westmeath.
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Alice Ginnell was active in politics and friends with Constance Markievicz and Maud Gonne.
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Alice Ginnell's husband was the Irish Parliamentary Party MP for Westmeath North which brought the couple to London where Ginnell became a member of the local branch of Cumann na mBan.
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Alice Ginnell's husband was the Irish Parliamentary Party MP for Westmeath North which brought the couple to London.
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Alice Ginnell worked for the Irish National Relief Fund with Art O'Brien.
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Alice Ginnell visited the women using the name "Mrs Jones" as a cover, Alice Ginnell later traveled to the US under the same name.
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In 1917 Alice Ginnell returned to Ireland where she organized the Cumann na mBan branches in Meath, Westmeath and Rathmines in Dublin.
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In 1918 Alice Ginnell was sent by Sinn Fein to Westmeath to help with running candidates in that constituency.
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Alice Ginnell found such a lack of organisation that she ended up becoming the Election Agent.
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Laurence Alice Ginnell was elected to the Dail and became Director of Propaganda.
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An Anti-Treaty supporter Alice Ginnell was her husband's Election Agent in the 1922 elections.
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Alice Ginnell then moved to the US to set up a 'Public Stenographer' office on Madison Avenue, New York and from there went to Washington.
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In DC Laurence Alice Ginnell was de Valera's Anti-Treaty representative until he died suddenly in 1923.
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Alice Ginnell returned to Ireland and took up a position as a translator in the Department of Industry and Commerce.
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Alice Ginnell died at the age of 86 at a Nursing Home in Edgeworthstown.
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Alice Ginnell recorded her experiences in her diaries with her husband.