Nell Ryan was born #OTD in 1881. Cumann na mBan organiser and one of 77 women arrested after 1916 Rising. Jailed and went on hunger strike in Civil War. First woman elected to Wexford County Council. She was "friend and confidant of practically every leader in the Republican movement"
One of the famous Ryan family of Tomcoole, Nell was the only one of her siblings with no Wikipedia page, so we fixed that #WeCanEdit
#IrishWomensHistory #Mastodaoine
📷 fair use on Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Ryan