Mary Bourke-Dowling was an Irish suffragette and republican.
10 Facts About Mary Bourke-Dowling
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Mary Bourke-Dowling was born in Clontarf on 12 December 1882.
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Mary Bourke-Dowling was amongst several hundred suffragettes arrested in November 1911 for breaking windows in London.
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Mary Bourke-Dowling had unsuccessfully attempted to break windows at the Bow Street Police Court on 27 November 1911.
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Mary Bourke-Dowling went on to join Cumann na mBan, and was on the Anti-Treaty side of the Irish Civil War.
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Mary Bourke-Dowling "had allowed her home to be used to harbour irregulars", those on the Anti-Treaty side.
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In February 1923, Mary Bourke-Dowling was arrested and imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol and North Dublin Union for 6 months.
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Mary Bourke-Dowling was a member of the Women Prisoners' Defence League along with Margaret Buckley, and drew on her experience as a suffragette to advise her fellow prisoners on how to resist the authorities.
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Mary Bourke-Dowling was reinstated to her job in 1932, after a number of years campaigning.
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Mary Bourke-Dowling died at her home in Clontarf on 21 July 1944.