Margaret Skinnider

**Margaret Frances Skinnider** (28 ga Mayu 1892 - 10 ga Oktoba 1971)  ta kasance mai juyin juya hali kuma mai ra'ayin mazan jiya da aka haifa a Coatbridge, Scotland. Ta yi yaƙi a lokacin tashin Ista na 1916 a Dublin a matsayin maharbi, da sauran ayyuka, kuma ita ce kaɗai mace da ta ji rauni a cikin wannan aikin. A matsayinta na mai leƙen asiri, an yaba mata saboda jarumtakarta.  Sadhbh Walshe a cikin *[[New York Times|Jaridar New York Times]]* ta kira ta da "malamar makaranta ta zama maharbi". 

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Margaret Frances Skinnider a shekarar 1892 ga iyayenta ' yan Ireland a garin Coatbridge na Lanarkshire . Ta yi horo a matsayin malamar lissafi kuma ta shiga Cumann na mBan a Glasgow . Ta kuma shiga cikin ƙungiyar mata ta zaɓe, ciki har da zanga-zanga a gidan yarin Perth .   Abin mamaki, ta koyi harbi a wani kulob na bindiga  wanda aka kafa shi da farko don mata su taimaka wajen kare Daular Burtaniya . 

A lokacin tafiye-tafiyenta zuwa Ireland, Skinnider ta fuskanci tasirin Constance Markievicz kuma ta fara aiki wajen safarar abubuwan fashewa da kayan aikin samar da bama-bamai zuwa Dublin (cikin hularta) don shirin tashin Ista na 1916.  Tare da Madeleine frinch-Mullen, ta shafe lokaci a tsaunukan da ke kewaye da Dublin tana gwada dynamite. 

Lokacin da Markievicz ya nuna wa Skinnider "ɓangaren Dublin mafi talauci", ta rubuta, "Ban yi imani akwai wani wuri mafi muni a duniya ba." Titin "wuri ne mai cike da najasa da shara", kuma ginin "cike yake da ramuka kamar an kunna wuta". 

## Tashin Ista

Duk da cewa memba ne na Cumann na mBan, Skinnider yana cikin rundunar sojojin Irish Citizen a lokacin Tashi. [1] Yana aiki daban-daban a matsayin mai leƙen asiri, mai gudu a saƙo (sau da yawa yana sanye da kayan yaro [2] ) da kuma mai harbin bindiga, Skinnider ya shiga cikin yaƙi da rundunar sojojin Burtaniya a Garrison a Kwalejin Likitocin Fiɗa da kuma St. Stephen's Green a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Janar Michael Mallin da Markievicz. A ƙarƙashinta akwai mutane 4 a ƙarƙashin jagorancinta. [3] An ruwaito cewa Skinnider ta kasance mace mai kyau a fagen yaƙi.

Ta ji mummunan rauni lokacin da aka harbe ta sau uku tana ƙoƙarin ƙona gidaje a titin Harcourt don ƙoƙarin katse sansanin sojojin Birtaniya da suka dasa harsashin bindiga a kan rufin Cocin Jami'a .  Nora O'Daly da Madeleine french Mullen ne suka yi mata magani saboda raunukan da ta samu, waɗanda suka ba ta taimakon gaggawa a sansanin Kwalejin Likitoci. 

Nora Connolly O'Brien ta bayyana rawar da Skinnider ke takawa a wannan aikin:

## Rayuwa ta sirri
Mary McAuliffe, wata masaniyar tarihi wacce ta rubuta tarihin rayuwar Skinnider bayan ta yi bincike kan rayuwarta, ta yi imanin cewa Skinnider 'yar madigo ce. Abokiyarta ita ce Nora O'Keeffe wadda ta haɗu a shekarar 1917 a birnin New York yayin da su biyun suka zo New York domin Eamon De Valera ne ya aiko su don tattara kuɗi don manufar ƙasa. A shekarar 1919, su biyun suna zaune tare a matsayin ma'aurata, suna zaune tare a Dublin har zuwa mutuwar O'Keeffe a shekarar 1962.  Skinnider tana cikin mata 'yan madigo da dama da suka halarci bikin Ista na 1916, domin da ta yi yaƙi tare da Kathleen Lynn, Madeleine frinch-Mullen, Julia Grenan da Elizabeth O'Farrell .      An nuna waɗannan matan, tare da Eva Gore-Booth da sauransu, a cikin wani shirin gaskiya na TG4 na 2023 game da "mata masu tsattsauran ra'ayi a tsakiyar juyin juya halin Irish":  ( *Zuciya Mai Tsanani* ).  

Ta yi shekarunta na ƙarshe a Glenageary, County Dublin.  Ta mutu a ranar 10 ga Oktoba 1971 kuma an binne ta kusa da Markievicz a Makabartar Glasnevin, Dublin.  Skinnider ita ce mace ta uku kacal da aka binne a yankin "filin Republican" na Glasnevin, Markievicz ita ce ta farko, sannan matar James Connolly Lillie ita ce ta biyu. 

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