Mary Spring Rice

Mary Ellen Spring Rice (an haife ta ne a ranar 14 ga watan Satumba na shekara ta 1880 - 1 ga Disamba 1924) ta kasance mai fafutukar kishin kasa ta Irish a farkon karni na 20.  Ta kasance mai aiki sosai a cikin harin bindiga a lokacin 1913-14, musamman a matsayin wani ɓangare na Howth Gun Run .Thomas Spring Rice and the Peopling of Australia , Limerickcity.ie (43)

 Tarihin rayuwa 
Kafin Yaƙin Duniya na farko, Spring Rice ta dauki bakuncin tarurruka da yawa na Irish da Conradh a Gaeilge a gidanta, kuma ta zama abokiyar Douglas Hyde da dan uwanta Nelly O'Brien.  A cikin 1913 da 1914, Spring Rice ta shiga cikin gudu-bin, musamman Howth gun-running.Martin, Francis Xavier, 1922–2000 (ed.). The Howth gun-running and the Kilcoole gun-running, 1914 [Recollections and documents]; foreword by Eamon de Valera. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, (1964)Bruce Nelson, Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race (Princeton University Press, 13 May 2012), 300. 

Wannan ya haɗa da taimakawa wajen jigilar makamai da za a yi amfani da su a cikin tashin hankali na Irish daga Jamus zuwa Ireland. Tare da Molly Childers, ta tara £ 2,000 don sayen bindigogin Mauser 900 daga Jamus, da yawa daga cikinsu an yi amfani da su a cikin Easter Rising na 1916. Spring Rice ya tashi a kan Asgard don tattara bindigogi kuma ya taimaka wajen sauke su a Ireland.

A lokacin Yakin Independence na Irish, ta ba da izinin amfani da gidanta na Mount Trenchard a matsayin gida mai aminci ga mayakan Sojojin Jamhuriyar Irish kuma an yi amfani da jirgin iyali don ɗaukar maza da makamai a kan Shannon Estuary.

 Mutuwa 
Spring Rice ya fara fama da tarin fuka a 1923, kuma ya mutu a wani asibiti a Clwyd, Wales, a ranar 1 ga Disamba 1924.  An binne ta a Dutsen Trenchard, Loghill, County Limerick, Ireland . Lokacin da akwatinta ya isa tashar jirgin kasa ta Foynes a ranar 4 ga Disamba 1924 mambobin al'umma da yawa sun gaishe shi, gami da mambobin Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITWU) Foynes Branch, sun yi layi a cikin tsarin soja. Kashegari, dukkan reshen Foynes I.T.G.W.U. sun halarci jana'izar 

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 1924