Josephine Marchment

**Josephine Marchment Brown** ( 1891/1892 - 1966), an haife ta **Mary Josephine McCoy**, ta yi aiki a matsayin mai leƙen asiri ga rundunar sojojin Cork No. 1 ta rundunar sojojin Republican ta Ireland (IRA) a lokacin Yaƙin 'Yancin Kan Ireland .  Ta auri jami'ar leƙen asiri ta IRA Florence O'Donoghue a watan Afrilun 1921,  kuma ma'auratan sun zauna a Cork har zuwa mutuwarsu a tsakiyar shekarun 1960. 

## Rayuwa ta farko
Josephine McCoy ita ce ƙarama a cikin 'ya'ya goma na Bridget McCoy (née O'Sullivan), daga Bonane, County Kerry, da Henry James McCoy, wani jami'in Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) daga Pallaskenry, County Limerick .   An haife ta a County Limerick, [ a ] an rene ta a birnin Cork. 

Ta ƙaura zuwa Wales a shekarar 1910, ta auri mijinta na farko, Coleridge Marchment (wanda aka fi sani da Brown), a shekarar 1913.  Ta haifi ɗansu Reggie a shekarar 1913, tare da ɗa na biyu, Gerald, wanda ya iso a shekarar 1915.  Ta koma Ireland, wataƙila zuwa Ballinlough a Cork, don "kula da mahaifinta da ya rasu kwanan nan" kuma ta sami aikin malanta a Victoria Barracks .  Mahaifinta ya mutu a shekarar 1917 kuma ba da daɗewa ba aka kashe mijinta, a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya, a Ypres . 

Duk da cewa ta kawo ƙaramin ɗanta zuwa Ireland, surukanta sun ƙi buƙatar mayar mata da babban ɗanta.   Da aka tilasta mata ta kai ƙara don neman a tsare ta,  ta "rasa a kotunan Ingila".  A wani aiki, wanda aka ruwaito cewa Michael Collins ya amince da shi,  (kuma a madadin bayar da bayanan sirri daga barikin)  membobin Cork IRA sun sace yaron a Wales suka dawo da shi Cork.  Florence O'Donoghue, jami'ar leƙen asiri ta IRA, tana da hannu a wannan aikin, wanda ya faru a ƙarshen 1920.  Ta auri O'Donoghue a 1921. 

## Yaƙin 'Yanci
Josephine Marchment ta yi aiki a matsayin mai buga rubutu a Victoria (daga baya Collins) Barracks da ke Cork.  Daga baya aka ƙara mata matsayi zuwa shugaban ma'aikatan farar hula da masu buga rubutu a cikin barikin kuma ta kula da ma'aikata 25.  Da samun kayan aiki daga ofishin kwamandan rundunar sojojin Burtaniya da ke Cork, Janar Peter Strickland,  ta zama ɗaya daga cikin manyan jami'an leƙen asiri na O'Donoghue.  Josephine Marchment Brown ta ɗauki sunan 'G',  wanda aka ce ya biyo bayan ƙaramin ɗanta. &#x5B; ** &#x5D;

Daga cikin takardun da aka kama a sansanin soja akwai wata wasika daga George Bernard O'Connor (na Rochestown ) wadda aka ruwaito tana ɗauke da bayanai game da motsin membobin IRA a yankin. [1] Wannan wasiƙar, wadda Florence O'Donoghue ta ɗauka a matsayin "shaida bayyananna ta sanar", ta haifar da harbin O'Connor da aka yi a hannun IRA. [1] Wasu majiyoyi, waɗanda wasu suka yi jayayya sosai, [2] [3] sun "yi hasashen cewa leƙen asirinta na iya haifar da mutuwar wasu maƙwabtanta". [4]

Yayin da aka kori wasu fararen hula, waɗanda ake zargi da fallasa bayanai, daga aikinsu a Victoria Barracks,  Josephine Marchment Brown ta ci gaba da aiki a barikin har zuwa lokacin tsagaita wuta a watan Yulin 1921.  

## Rayuwa daga baya
Josephine da mijinta na biyu, Florence O'Donoghue, suna zaune a Loughlene, Eglantine Park kusa da titin Douglas a Cork, tare da 'ya'yansu maza biyu da 'ya'ya mata biyu, da kuma 'ya'yanta maza biyu daga aurenta na farko.  

A cikin takardar neman fanshon aikin soja, wadda aka gabatar da sunan Josephine O'Donoghue a shekarar 1939, ta lissafa Seán O'Hegarty da Terence MacSwiney a matsayin "jami'an da ke jagorantar" sashin IRA (Cork No. 1 Brigade) da ta yi aiki da su.  Takardar neman aikin ta ƙunshi nassoshi daga O'Hegarty, Liam Tobin, Joseph O'Connor da Tom Barry . 

Ta mutu a shekarar 1966.  Mijinta Florence, wanda ya kasance mai tsaka-tsaki a lokacin Yaƙin Basasa na Ireland, ya mutu a watan Disamba na 1967 a Asibitin Mercy, Cork . 

## A cikin almara
Wani wasan kwaikwayo, wanda Gerry White ya rubuta kuma mai taken *The Soldier and the Spy*, ya dogara ne akan rayuwar Josephine Marchment da Florence O'Donoghue.  Wani labari a cikin ƙaramin jerin shirye-shiryen RTÉ *Resistance* shi ma ya dogara ne akan rayuwar Marchment.  A cikin wani shirin TG4 na 2012, Elva Trill ne ya buga *Marchment*  

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