1. Dorothy Macardle was an Irish writer, novelist, playwright, journalist and non-academic historian.
25 Facts About Dorothy Macardle
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Dorothy Macardle was unable to respect de Valera's attitudes adopted during World War 2.
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Dorothy Macardle was born in Dundalk, Ireland, in 1889 into a wealthy brewing family famous for their Macardle's Ale.
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Dorothy Macardle's father was Sir Thomas Callan Macardle, a Catholic who supported home rule in Ireland while her mother was Lucy "Minnie" Macardle, who came from an English Anglican background and was a Unionist in her politics.
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Between 1914 and 1916, Dorothy Macardle lived and worked in Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire in England.
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Thomas Dorothy Macardle, who supported the Irish Parliamentary Party and John Redmond, followed their belief that Irish service in the British army during the war would ensure the granting of home rule following the war.
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Dorthoy's brother, Lieutenant Kenneth Callan Dorothy Macardle, was killed at the Battle of the Somme while another brother Major John Ross Dorothy Macardle managed to survive the war and earn a Military Cross.
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Dorothy Macardle was a member of the Gaelic League and later joined both Sinn Fein and Cumann na mBan in 1917.
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In 1918 Dorothy Macardle was arrested by the RIC while teaching at Alexandra.
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On 19 January 1919, Dorothy Macardle was in the public gallery for the inaugural meeting of the First Dail and witnessed it declare unilateral independence from the United Kingdom, which would ultimately be the catalyst for the Irish War of Independence.
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In December 1920, Dorothy Macardle travelled to London to meet with Margot Asquith, the wife of the former British prime minister HH Asquith, hoping to establish a line of communication between the Irish and British governments.
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In October 1922 Despard, Gonne MacBride and Dorothy Macardle were speaking at a protest on O'Connell Street, Dublin against the arrest of Mary MacSwiney by the Free State when Free State authorities moved to break it up.
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Dorothy Macardle became close friends with Jacob and shared a flat with her in Rathmines later in the 1920s.
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The Irish Civil War concluded in the spring of 1923, and Dorothy Macardle was released from prison on 9 May.
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Dorothy Macardle travelled alongside the de Valeras as they toured the country and she was a frequent visitor to their home.
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Dorothy Macardle obliged, and by May 1924 she had compiled a report that was released under the title of "the tragedies of Kerry".
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Dorothy Macardle recounted her civil war experiences in Earthbound: Nine Stories of Ireland.
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Dorothy Macardle continued as a playwright for the next two decades.
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In 1937, Dorothy Macardle wrote and published the work by which she is best known for; "The Irish Republic", an in-depth account of the history of Ireland between 1919 until 1923.
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Dorothy Macardle was widely praised for her research, thorough documentation, range of sources and narration of dramatic events, alongside reservations about the book's political slant.
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Dorothy Macardle spent seven years writing the book in a cottage in Delgany in Wicklow and it is a day-by-day account of the history of the events in Ireland from 1919 to 1923 recorded in painstaking detail together with voluminous source material.
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Dorothy Macardle was amongst them, deploring what she saw as the reduced status of women in this new Constitution.
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The entire matter of the new constitution led Dorothy Macardle to join Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington's Women's Social and Progressive League.
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Dorothy Macardle died in 1958 in a hospital in Drogheda, of cancer, at the age of 69.
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Dorothy Macardle was accorded a state funeral, with De Valera giving the oration, and is buried in Sutton.