On January 28, 1967, Helena Moloney died in Dublin. Moloney was a great woman, born in Dublin in 1884, as a teen, she was deeply moved by a speech given by Maud Gonne and decided to join Inghinidhe na hÉireann (the Daughters of Ireland) a revolutionary women's society founded by Maud Gonne on Easter Sunday 1900. She went to Maud Gonne’s house to join up and arrived in the middle of a police raid. Asked by the police if she was a member, she replied that she was and was proud to be, whereupon she was promptly arrested. From the beginning, Helena played a prominent role in the organization … [Read more...] about BEAN na hEIREANN