12 Facts About Margaret Buckley

Margaret Buckley was an Irish republican and president of Sinn Fein from 1937 to 1950.

Margaret Buckley was the first female leader of Sinn Fein and was the first Irishwoman to lead a political party.

Margaret Buckley was involved in anti-British royal visit protests in 1903 and 1907 and was among the group that founded An Dun in Cork in 1910.

In 1906, she married Patrick Margaret Buckley, described as "a typical rugby-playing British civil servant".

Margaret Buckley was involved in the War of Independence in Cork.

Margaret Buckley opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and was interned in Mountjoy and Kilmainham, where she went on a hunger strike.

Margaret Buckley was an active member of the Women Prisoners' Defence League, founded by Maud Gonne and Charlotte Despard in 1922.

Margaret Buckley was an organiser for the Irish Women Workers' Union.

Margaret Buckley was active in the cause of Sinn Fein well into her late seventies.

Margaret Buckley served as honorary vice-president of Sinn Fein from 1950 until her death in 1962.

Margaret Buckley was the only member of the ardchomairle of the party not to be arrested during a police raid in July 1957.

Margaret Buckley died on 24 July 1962 and is buried in St Finbarr's Cemetery, Cork.