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Mabel Washington Fitzgerald (4 July 1884 – 24 April 1958) was an Irish republican, suffragette, and socialist. She took part in the 1916 Easter Rising and the Irish War of Independence.
Jun 13, 2016 · This article offers an assessment of the career and ideology of the Irish republican and Cumann na mBan activist Mabel FitzGerald, née McConnell (1884–1958). From a staunchly Unionist Belfast Presbyterian family, Mabel converted to republicanism while an undergraduate in the early 1900s.
- Conor Morrissey
- 2016
Protestant republican is Mabel FitzGerald, née McConnell (1884-1958). Mabel, if she is recalled at all, is remembered as the wife of 1916 rebel and Irish Free State politician Desmond FitzGerald, or, as mother of former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.3 However, Mabel
Mabel Washington Fitzgerald (4 July 1884 – 24 April 1958) was an Irish republican, suffragette, and socialist. She took part in the 1916 Easter Rising and the Irish War of Independence.
Mabel McConnell, born in 1884, was the daughter of a Belfast Presbyterian. Having met Desmond FitzGerald at Gaelic League classes, they married in 1911 and subsequently had four sons. The youngest – future Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach – Garret FitzGerald was born in 1926.
Mabel had attended Victoria College, Belfast (1894–1902), and QCB (1902–6), obtaining a BA. While in college she became an Irish-language enthusiast and convinced nationalist; she called herself ‘Meadhbh ní Chonaill’ for many years.
Nov 15, 2008 · Garret FitzGerald regarded his mother, Mabel McConnell, a Belfast Protestant nationalist, as the more political of his parents.
