Helena Molony

**Helena Mary Molony** (15 Janairu 1883 - 29 Janairu 1967) 'Yar jam'iyyar Republican ce ta Ireland, mai fafutukar kare hakkin mata kuma mai fafutukar kare hakkin ma'aikata.  Ta yi gwagwarmaya a lokacin tashin Easter na 1916 kuma daga baya ta zama mace ta biyu shugabar Majalisar Dokokin Irish Trades Union . 

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Molony a 8 Coles Lane, kusa da titin Henry, a tsakiyar Dublin, ga Michael Molony, mai sayar da kayan abinci, da Catherine McGrath.  Mahaifiyarta ta mutu tun tana ƙarama a rayuwar Helena. Daga baya mahaifinta ya sake yin aure, amma dukkan ma'auratan sun zama masu shan giya, wani abu da zai yi tasiri ga Helena shekaru bayan haka. 

## Inghinidhe na hÉireann
A shekarar 1903, bayan wani jawabi mai goyon bayan ƙasa da Maud Gonne ya yi, Molony ta shiga Inghinidhe na hÉireann ('Ya'yan Ireland) kuma ta fara sadaukar da kai ga manufar ƙasa a tsawon rayuwarta.  A shekarar 1908 ta zama editan jaridar wata-wata ta ƙungiyar, *Bean na hÉireann* (Matar Ireland).  "Bean na hÉireann ta haɗu da ƙungiyar 'yan kishin ƙasa; Constance Markievicz ta tsara shafin taken, kuma ta rubuta ginshiƙin lambu; Sydney Gifford (a ƙarƙashin *sunan* "John Brennan") ya rubuta wa jaridar kuma yana cikin ƙungiyar shirya ta; masu ba da gudummawa sun haɗa da Eva Gore-Booth, Susan L. Mitchell, da Katharine Tynan, da kuma Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, AE, Roger Casement, Arthur Griffith da James Stephens .  Jaridar ta haɗa da zaɓi na labarai daban-daban - bayanan salon zamani (wanda ya haɗa da kayan Irish da tufafin Irish), ginshiƙin ma'aikata, wurin dafa abinci, siyasa, almara, waƙoƙi... 

Molony ta kasance ginshiƙi a fafutukar samar da abinci ga yara a makarantu; tare da Maud Gonne, Marie Perolz da sauransu, ta shirya samar da abincin makaranta na yau da kullun ga yara a yankunan da ke fama da talauci, kuma ta matsa wa Kamfanin Dublin da sauran hukumomi lamba don samar da abinci mai kyau (nama da kayan lambu, da shinkafa da madara a ranar Juma'a) ga yara masu yunwa a Dublin. 

## Jam'iyyar Republican da Labour
Molony kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin 'yar wasan kwaikwayo, kuma memba ce a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Abbey . [1] Duk da haka, babban aikinta shine ga aikinta na siyasa. [2] Ta kasance mai tasiri a siyasa, wacce aka yaba mata wajen kawo mutane da yawa cikin wannan motsi, ciki har da Constance Markievicz da Dr. Kathleen Lynn, waɗanda suka rubuta: 'Mun saba yin dogon tattaunawa kuma ta mayar da ni cikin ƙungiyar ƙasa. Ta kasance yarinya mai wayo da kyau tare da babban ƙarfin yin abokai.' [3]

A matsayinta na mai fafutukar kare haƙƙin ma'aikata, Molony abokiyar aikinta ta kud da kud da Markievicz da kuma James Connolly, wanda ta kasance sakatare na wani lokaci.  A watan Nuwamba na 1915, Connolly ta naɗa sakatarenta na Ƙungiyar Ma'aikatan Mata ta Ireland, a matsayin maye gurbin Delia Larkin .  An kafa wannan ƙungiyar ne a lokacin yajin aikin da aka yi a masana'antar biskit ta Jacob's 1911 kuma ta kasance wani ɓangare na 1913 Dublin Lock-out .  Molony ta kula da masana'antar riguna ta ƙungiyar a Liberty Hall, wadda aka kafa don ba wa masu yajin aiki aiki kuma aka sanya su cikin jerin sunayen 'yan ƙasa bayan yajin aikin.  "Babu ɗayansu da ya fi kyau a cikin rawar da ta taka a cikin duka yaƙin [Rising na 1916, inda duk suka yi aiki, da kuma yajin aikin da aka yi a Jacob's]," in ji Molony a cikin sanarwar da ta bayar ga Ofishin Tarihin Soja. "Ta irin wannan hanya ce ainihin masu fada a ji na ƙasar da aka haifa." Tana da abokantaka da iyalan Thomas MacDonagh da matarsa, Muriel, kuma ita ce uwar 'yarsu Barbara, wacce uban gidanta Patrick Pearse ne; tana bayanin Liberty Hall, inda Connolly ke yawan yin yawancin lokacinsa, ta rubuta: "Connolly, bayan sa'o'i, zai iya zama kyauta ga masu ziyara na sirri... Pearse ya kira sau da yawa, haka kuma Joe Plunkett da Tom MacDonagh. Waɗannan mutanen duk abokaina ne na kud da kud, don haka ya zama kamar abu ne da na saba ƙarfafa su su sayi safa da taye daga gare mu."

## Manazarta