1. Philomena Frances Ryan was an Irish chemist and nationalist and the second wife of President of Ireland, Sean T O'Kelly.
19 Facts About Phyllis Ryan
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Philomena Frances Ryan was born on 28 February 1895 to John Ryan and Elizabeth, farmers in Tomcoole, near Taghmon, County Wexford.
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Phyllis Ryan was the youngest of six sisters and five brothers.
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Phyllis Ryan's brother, James Ryan was an Irish Volunteer who became a senior Fianna Fail Minister.
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Phyllis Ryan was educated in the small nearby national school at Caroreigh and in the Loreto Abbey in Gorey.
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Phyllis Ryan was the only woman in her year and only the fifth female scientist to have graduated from the National University of Ireland.
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Phyllis Ryan reported for duty at the General Post Office, Dublin with her sisters, where they acted as messengers.
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The Phyllis Ryan sisters attempted to get the British army to stop firing on Red Cross locations.
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Phyllis Ryan was a member of, and at one point a captain in, Cumann na mBan.
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Phyllis Ryan managed to escape arrest and worked with the organisations supporting those who did get arrested.
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Phyllis Ryan wrote to her sister Min severing ties with herself and her husband Richard Mulcahy, a general in the Free State army, for the duration.
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Phyllis Ryan was a founder member of the Irish Chemical Association.
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Phyllis Ryan was on the committee of the Irish Chemical Association, then vice-president and president.
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In 1934, Phyllis Ryan became a member of the first industrial research council.
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Phyllis Ryan was the widower of her sister Mary Kate who had died in 1934 at the age of 56.
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Phyllis Ryan's husband became President of Ireland in 1945, at which point Ryan gave up her career.
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In June 1946, Phyllis Ryan organised a reunion event at Aras an Uachtarain for members of Cumann na mBan,.
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Phyllis Ryan's husband served two terms as President of Ireland before retiring in 1959, at which point the couple moved to Roundwood, County Wicklow.
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Phyllis Ryan died on 19 November 1983 aged 88 in Our Lady's Hospice at Harold's Cross, Dublin.