1. In 1879, promoted by his company to an executive position, her father moved the family to Belfast where Alice Milligan was able to attend Methodist College, Belfast, an early pioneer of secondary mixed-sex education.
23 Facts About Alice Milligan
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Alice Milligan acknowledged the influence of a family servant, Jane, who conveyed the spirit of her previous mistress Mary Ann McCracken.
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In Dublin Alice Milligan was witness both to the first stirrings of the Irish cultural renaissance and to the last act in the political career of Charles Stewart Parnell.
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Alice Milligan lived with Anna Johnston, the daughter of Robert Johnston, a leading member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
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In 1895 Alice Milligan started writing a regular column for the Irish Weekly Independent entitled "Notes from the North" to remind a Dublin readership of these and other contributions of women, and of the North, to the national cause.
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Together with Johnston and Bulmer, Alice Milligan was drawn into the orbit of Francis Joseph Bigger.
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Alice Milligan produced a six-penny Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone.
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However, the descendants of the "Protestant leaders and peasants" who, according to Alice Milligan, had sealed Tone's union of creeds on "the battle field and scaffold", effectively restricted any commemorative display to Catholic districts.
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Connolly was allowed further submissions, and Alice Milligan published appreciative letters from readers.
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Yet while expressing "full sympathy with Mr Connolly's views on the labour and social questions", Alice Milligan opposed the formation of his Irish Socialist Republican Party and refused their invitation to lecture.
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Alice Milligan's editorials "sidestepped" Connolly's proposal to link socialism and nationalism.
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Alice Milligan's ideal remained United Irishmen's appeal to nation above both creed and class.
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Alice Milligan's serialised "The Little Green Slippers" "melds patriotic and erotic desire".
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Alice Milligan supported Sinn Fein in the 1918 general election, campaigning for the trade unionist and East Rising veteran Winifred Carney in Belfast.
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From 1898, in short succession Alice Milligan wrote eleven plays staged by Maud Gonne's Inghinidhe na hEireann, the Gaelic League and Irish Literary Theatre.
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The play's lack of action and use of music created moments of "picturesque stillness" on stage suggestive of the tableaux vivant which Alice Milligan mounted on tour for the Gaelic League.
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Alice Milligan found the language of the long soliloquies "intolerable" and the overall effect "tawdry".
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Characteristically for Alice Milligan it combines the theme of Irish dispossession with a transgressive relationship: between a Cromwellian soldier and the daughter of the Irish family on which he has been quartered.
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Alice Milligan was unapologetic about the continuous nationalist thread in her writing.
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Alice Milligan lived with William, who had secured a minor civil-service position, his wife and paralysed son in the village of Drumragh outside Omagh.
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Alice Milligan spoke of the "hostile" "un-Irish" atmosphere of the North at Wexford's commemoration of the United Irishmen in July 1938.
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Alice Milligan died in Trichur, County Tyrone, on 13 April 1953, aged 87.
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Charlotte Milligan Fox and Alice Milligan have a plaque mounted on Omagh Library, 1 Spillar's Place, Omagh, Co Tyrone.