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Women of the Revolution - 1921

WOMEN OF THE REVOLUTION We only just unearthed these photos of, what some suspect be, Eileen O’Dee ––the feminist revolutionary who singlehandedly fought off 12 brigades of the Black-N-Tans during the War of Independence of 1921. We think they were taken just days after she had allegedly escaped to New York ––she fled there as there was a price upon her head: “£100 will be paid by the Crown to anyone who has information which leads to the arrest of one Eileen O’Dee (25), wanted for treason, arson, and for being a general menace to the Forces of the Empire”, was writ large on every poster posted around the Dublin docks about which she had to navigate in order to board the ship which, it is said, would have been her final bid for freedom and escape of the noose which was awaiting her at Dublin Castle. It was said that agents of the Crown were stationed at the New York docks waiting for her to disembark when the ship reached there on the 27th of November 1921 ––but when the ship finally