13 Facts About Nora O'Keeffe

Nora O'Keeffe was a revolutionary and feminist from County Tipperary.

Nora O'Keeffe was a regional organiser of Cumann na mBan, a dispatch courier in the War of Independence and an anti-Treaty propagandist during the Irish Civil War who was interned in Cork and Kilmainham Gaol.

Nora O'Keeffe was the lifelong partner of Margaret Skinnider, a sniper wounded in the 1916 Rising.

Nora O'Keeffe was the sixth of 12 surviving children in a relatively wealthy farming family who were involved in the Gaelic League.

Nora O'Keeffe later identified his body after he was killed on 14 October 1920.

Nora O'Keeffe travelled between Dublin, Tipperary, and other parts of Munster on Cumann na mBan work.

Nora O'Keeffe was appointed anti-Treaty publicity agent in Tipperary by Brigid 'Bridie' O'Mullane who ran the publicity office for the IRA.

Nora O'Keeffe was arrested by Free State forces in February 1923, imprisoned in Cork Jail and later transferred to Kilmainham Gaol.

The 1925 Civil Service Bill limited the ability of women like Nora O'Keeffe to take the Senior Civil Service exam.

Nora O'Keeffe was on its Executive from 1925 to the early 1930s.

Nora O'Keeffe was a member of an economic sub-committee set up to look into work schemes to help members financially.

Nora O'Keeffe died of cardiac failure aged 76 in August 1961.

Nora O'Keeffe's obituary mentioned her involvement with Cumann na mBan and the Third Tipperary Brigade but omitted Skinnider, her partner of more than 40 years.