Mary Eva Comerford

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Mary Eva Comerford

Also Known As: "Máire Comerford"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Rathdrum, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
Death: December 16, 1982 (89)
Sandyford, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Dublin, Ireland
Place of Burial: Mount Saint Benedict, Gorey, Wexford, Wexford, Ireland
Immediate Family:

Daughter of James Charles Comerford and Eva Mary Comerford (Esmonde)
Sister of Colonel Thomas James Comerford; Dympna Helen Mulligan (Comerford) and Alexander E. Comerford

Occupation: Journalist, Republican activist
Managed by: Bill Barnes
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About Mary Eva Comerford




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Máire Comerford (1893-1982) was a prominent Irish republican activist and journalist from Co Wexford who witnessed the principal events in the War of Independence and the Irish Civil War in 1916-1923.
She remained a committed supporter of Republican causes until her death in her ninetieth year, and at her death she was described as “the grand old dame of Republicanism.”

Comerford Profiles 21: Máire Comerford (1893-1982), republican activist and journalist, Comerford Family history

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Mary Eva Comerford's Timeline

1893
June 29, 1893
Rathdrum, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
1982
December 16, 1982
Age 89
Sandyford, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Dublin, Ireland
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Mount Saint Benedict, Gorey, Wexford, Wexford, Ireland