1. Nellie Gifford was an Irish republican activist and nationalist.
23 Facts About Nellie Gifford
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Nellie Gifford's father was a Catholic while her mother, a niece of the painter Frederick Burton, was rigorously Protestant.
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Nellie Gifford grew up in Rathmines and went to school at Alexandra College.
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Nellie Gifford trained as a domestic economy teacher and worked for seven years at a series of positions in County Meath.
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Nellie Gifford experienced the living conditions of the landless rural poor while lodging in labourers' cottages during this time.
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Nellie Gifford was influenced by her sisters' nationalism and feminism.
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Nellie Gifford got parts in stage plays, including Eleanor's enterprise by George Birmingham in the Gaiety Theatre, a play produced by the countess's husband, Count Casimir Markievicz.
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Nellie Gifford entered in disguise, that of an elderly and infirm clergyman.
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Nellie Gifford spoke to the hotel staff to prevent Larkin's strong Liverpool accent giving away his identify.
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Nellie Gifford went on to be a founding member of the Irish Citizen Army.
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Nellie Gifford gave lessons on camp cookery in Liberty Hall and found jobs for recruits coming in from abroad.
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Nellie Gifford was the only one of her sisters to actively participate in the rising itself.
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Nellie Gifford was with the ICA's St Stephen's Green contingent alongside Countess Markievicz.
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Nellie Gifford ensured the delivery of provisions to troops both in the college with her and in outlying posts.
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Nellie Gifford was one of the women arrested at the surrender and jailed in Kilmainham Gaol.
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Nellie Gifford was one of those transferred to Mountjoy Prison until her release on 4 June 1916.
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Nellie Gifford became a broadcaster and journalist for the national radio and the Irish press.
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Nellie Gifford became devoted to preserving the historical record of the independence movement.
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Nellie Gifford was irritated by the display of Catholic religious artifacts there.
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Nellie Gifford campaigned for a permanent exhibition of recent Irish nationalist history.
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Nellie Gifford coordinated a substantial body of material pertinent to nationalist organisations, the Easter Rising, and the war of independence, which now forms the core of the present collection.
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Nellie Gifford looked after stray and neglected dogs and cats.
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Nellie Gifford died on 23 June 1971 at the Gascoigne nursing home in Rathmines, Dublin, aged 90.