THE CALENDAR

Invitation

As part of the national Decade of Centenaries programme, Cork City Library chose to honour the courage and resilience of women during revolutionary times.

The Hegarty, Forde and Fennell families were honoured to be invited to submit photos of Nan and Mamie to be included in this unique calendar.

The Calendar

Each page of the Calendar contains images of remarkable women and shows how they helped to support their communities. 

The front cover from the Cork Public Museum shows a group of women taking part in military training in the Beamish & Crawford courtyard on South Main Street. Extraordinary women prepared to fight for a better future. 

Copies of the calendar are available in branches of Cork City Library and from Cork Public Musuem (subject to availability).

The Calendar

 

Cork City Library Calendar 2024

Women taking part in military training in the courtyard of Beamish & Crawford, South Main Street, Cork. 

Source: Cork Public Museum

Cork City Library Calendar 2024

January

Members of Cumann na mBan outside the Cork Courthouse in 1923

Source: Cork Public Museum

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February

The Conlon Sisters, May & Lil from Blarney Street

Source: Cork Public Museum

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March

The Wallace Sisters, Nora & Sheila

Source: Cork Public Museum

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April

The Hegarty Sisters, Nan & Mamie from “The Laurels”, Pouladuff

Source: Hegarty, Forde & Fennell families

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May

The Commissariat of the Cumann na nGaedheal at Cumann na mBan G.H.Q.

Source: Cork Public Museum

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June

Cork Suffragettes in Hyde Park, London, June 1908

Source: Museum of London

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July

Muriel and Mary MacSwiney giving evidence before the American Commission in Washington D.C. in 1920

Source: Library of Congress

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August

Cork Pro-Treaty Cumann na mBan fundraising concert in March 1922

Source: Cork Public Museum

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September

Sisters Mary & Anne McSwiney outside Scoil Íte in 1916

Source: Fleischmann Collection, Rory Gallagher Music Library

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October

Sisters Peg, Sara & Brighid Duggan alongwith their sister, Annie were early members of Cumann na mBan

Source: Brendan Doyle

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November

Mary Bowles from Clogheen who was arrested in 1921.

Source: The Bowles Family

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December

Muriel MacSwiney with her baby daughter Máire.

Source: Cork Public Museum

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David O’Brien, City Librarian, October 2023

Cork City Library Calendar 2024

 

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