Kathleen Barry Moloney

**Kathleen "Kathy" Barry Moloney** (19 Oktoba 1896 - 10 Janairu 1969) 'yar fafutukar jam'iyyar Republican ce ta Ireland, kuma mai rajin kare haƙƙin 'yan kasuwa. Ita babbar 'yar'uwa ce ga Kevin Barry, wani ɗan tawayen jam'iyyar Republican ta Ireland wanda aka kashe a shekarar 1920. 

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Kathleen Barry Moloney a Catherine Agnes Barry a 8 Fleet Street, Dublin a ranar 19 ga Oktoba, 1896. Iyayenta su ne Thomas (ta mutu a 1908), mai wadata a harkar kiwo, da kuma Mary Barry (née Dowling, ta mutu a 1953). Iyayenta biyu daga County Carlow ne. Ita ce babba a cikin 'yan'uwa bakwai, tare da 'yan'uwa mata huɗu, Sheila (ko Shel), Eileen (ko Elgin), Mary Christina (ko Maureen ko Monty) da Margaret (ko Peggy ko Peg), da 'yan'uwa biyu, Michael da Kevin .  Iyalin Barry suna da gonar kiwo mai fadin eka 86 a Tombeagh, Hacketstown, County Carlow, da kuma shago a bene na ƙasa na gidansu na Fleet Street. Bayan mutuwar mahaifinta, wasu daga cikin iyalan, ciki har da Moloney sun zauna a Dublin tare da goggon mahaifinta Judith. Mahaifiyarta ta koma gonar Tombeagh tare da ƙananan 'ya'yanta.  

## Ayyukan 'yan Republican
Ita da Kevin sun halarci taron tunawa da shahidan Manchester a Gidan Mansion a watan Nuwamba na 1915. A lokacin sake tsara masu aikin sa kai na Irish bayan tashin Ista a 1916, Barrys sun samar da hanyar sadarwa tsakanin Carlow Brigade da Hedkwatar Dublin. Ɗan'uwanta Michael ya zama kwamandan rundunar soji ta bataliyar a Carlow. Yayin da take 'yar jam'iyyar Republican mai himma, Moloney ta kasance mai takaita ayyukanta domin dole ne ta taimaki mahaifiyarta da goggonta su kula da ƙannenta da kuma kula da harkokin iyali. [1]

A shekarar 1917, ta shiga Gaelic League da Sinn Féin . Tana aiki a matsayin sakatare na sirri ga Ernest Aston lokacin da aka kama Kevin aka kuma yanke masa hukunci saboda rawar da ya taka wajen mutuwar sojojin Birtaniya 3 a watan Satumbar 1920. Aston ta yi ƙoƙarin samun sassauci daga hukuncin kisan kai da aka yanke wa Kevin. Bayan kisan ɗan'uwanta, Moloney ta shiga cikin ayyukan jam'iyyar Republican. Ta shiga reshen jami'ar Cumann na mBan a ƙarshen 1920, inda take ɗaukar bindigogi da saƙonni lokaci-lokaci, kuma ta share duk wani shaida mai laifi daga wuraren da ke cikin haɗarin kai hari. Ta yi aiki a Sashen Harkokin Cikin Gida na Dáil Éireann a ƙarƙashin Austin Stack, kuma ta kasance alkali a kotunan jam'iyyar Republican. 

Bisa buƙatar Éamon de Valera,  Moloney tana ɗaya daga cikin tawagar 'yan jam'iyyar Republican bakwai, tare da Stack, Countess Markievicz, da Michael O'Flanagan, waɗanda suka yi tafiya zuwa Amurka don tara kuɗi da tallata manufofin jam'iyyar Republican daga Afrilu zuwa Yuni 1922. A lokacin wannan rangadin, ta kuma yi jawabi a tarurrukan jama'a da yawa.  A lokacin barkewar Yaƙin Basasa na Ireland, tana ɗaya daga cikin mata da yawa na Cumann na mBan, ciki har da Maire Comerford, Muriel MacSwiney, Countess Markievicz da Linda Kearns,   waɗanda suka zauna tare da sansanin sojoji na hedikwatar adawa da yarjejeniyar da aka sake mayarwa a Otal ɗin Hammam bayan sun sha kashi a Kotuna Huɗu . Matan sun tsira daga kawanya na tsawon mako guda a ƙarƙashin ruwan harsasai masu yawa daga sojojin Free State. Ita da Linda Kearns suna tare da shugabar jam'iyyar Republican Cathal Brugha a otal ɗin Hamman lokacin da aka harbe shi aka kashe shi (7 Yuli 1922).  Daga watan Yunin 1922, ta kasance memba mai himma a Asusun Masu Dogara da Fursunoni na Republican na Ireland, inda ta dauki mukamin sakatare janar daga Disamba 1922 zuwa Satumba 1924, wanda hakan ya sa ta yi tafiya a fadin Ireland don rarraba kayan agaji. A lokacin wannan aikin, an kama ta saboda mallakar takardu da suka shafi Asusun, kuma an daure ta tare da jama'a a Kurkukun Cork . Ta shiga yajin cin abinci har sai da aka mayar da ita da abokin aikinta zuwa Kurkukun Cork City a farkon 1923. Tsakanin Satumba 1924 da Afrilu 1925, ta zagaya Ostiraliya tana tara kuɗi don Asusun.   

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