11 Facts About Anne Devlin

Anne Devlin was an Irish republican who in 1803, while his ostensible housekeeper, conspired with Robert Emmet, and with her cousin, the rebel outlaw Michael Dwyer to renew the United Irish insurrection against the British Crown.

Anne Devlin remained in contact with her cousin, Michael Dywer who led a guerrilla force in the Wicklow Mountains and, defiantly, she helped re-inter and bury the bodies of executed rebels.

Anne Devlin's father had offered Emmet the shelter of his own home, but Emmet preferred leasing a house in nearby Butterfield Lane.

Anne Devlin helped Emmet and James Hope arrange meetings at Rathfarnham in April 1803 with her cousin Dwyer.

Anne Devlin involved herself the preparations for the insurrection in the city, helping to move arms and supplies from the Dublin headquarters on Butterfield Lane to rebel positions in other parts of the city.

Anne Devlin was interrogated, including with the use of half-hanging but, finding out little of consequence, the yeomanry eventually departed.

Anne Devlin is likely the Anne Devlin who in 1835 is recorded as being employed by St Patrick's Hospital Dublin as a laundress but, exceptionally, with the status and pay of an "officer" of the institution.

Anne Devlin's transcriptions, held by the National Library of Ireland, were first edited by John J Finegan and published in 1968 as The Anne Devlin Jail Journal.

Anne Devlin is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery to which her remains were removed from a pauper's grave, by Madden and friends in 1852.

In one scene of her film drama Anne Devlin, Emmet enters a room as Devlin is holding up his splendid green uniform in front of a mirror.

The film starred Bosco Hogan as Robert Emmet and Brid Brennan as Anne Devlin, and was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.