Evelyn Irons

**Evelyn Graham Irons** (17 Yuni 1900 - 3 Afrilu 2000)  ta kasance 'yar jaridar Scotland, mace ta farko da ta yi wa ado da Croix de Guerre na Faransa.

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Irons a Govan, Glasgow ga Joseph Jones Irons, mai sayar da kayayyaki, da Edith Mary Latta ko Irons .  Ta kammala karatu daga Kwalejin Somerville, Oxford . 

## Ayyuka
Ayyukan Irons a aikin jarida ya fara ne a Daily Mail, inda editan ya sanya ta a shafin kyakkyawa duk da cewa ita kanta ba ta taɓa sanya kayan shafa ba. Daga karshe an kore ta saboda "kamar yadda ba ta da kyau". A Evening Standard ta shirya shafukan "sha'awar mata", amma lokacin da Yaƙin Duniya na II ya ɓarke ta sanar da editan labarai "Daga yanzu ina aiki a gare ku. "  Ko da yake Janar Montgomery ya ki amincewa da mata 'yan jarida a fagen fama, ta sami goyon bayan Janar Jean de Lattre de Tassigny na Faransa kuma ta zama ɗaya daga cikin 'yan jaridar farko da suka isa Paris da aka 'yantar. Ita ce mace ta farko da ta kai ga Hitler's Eagle's Nest bayan kama ta; bayan ta hau can ta hanyar dusar ƙanƙara ta taimaka wa kanta zuwa kwalban "kyakkyawan ruwan inabi na Rhine" na Hitler.

Irons ya yi tafiya zuwa Amurka a 1952 don rufe zaben shugaban kasa kuma ya ci gaba da zama bayan haka, ya zauna kusa da Brewster, New York. A shekara ta 1954 ta karya takunkumin labarai game da hambarar da shugaban Guatemala Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán ta hanyar hayar jaki don kai ta Chiquimula yayin da wasu 'yan jarida, waɗanda aka haramta su haye iyaka, suka jira a wani mashaya a Honduras. Ta zama mai ba da rahoto na farko da ya isa hedkwatar Gwamnatin wucin gadi; wani mai ba da labarai ga wata takarda mai hamayya ya karɓi sakon waya daga editansa yana umurni ya "yi amfani da jaki".

## Rayuwa ta mutum
Dangantakar Irons da marubucin Vita Sackville-West sananne ne - watanni kafin mutuwarta, wani taken Evening Standard ya bayyana ta a matsayin "mai ba da labari na yaki wanda ya karya zuciyar Vita" - amma soyayya ta kasance takaice.

A cewar mai ba da labari Victoria Glendinning, a cikin 1931 Irons ya tafi a matsayin edita na Shafin mata na Daily Mail don yin hira da Sackville-West a Sissinghurst inda take tsarawa da kuma tsara shahararrun lambuna. Sackville-West ta auri Harold Nicolson (kuma ta riga ta sami al'amuran aure da yawa, gami da Violet Trefusis), yayin da Irons ke da hannu tare da Olive Rinder .  Kamar dai wannan ba shi da rikitarwa, Rinder ya kuma zama mai son Sackville-West, ya kafa maza-a-uku a cikin 1932 wanda ya ƙare lokacin da Irons ya sadu da ɗan jarida, Joy McSweeney . 

### Farin Ciki McSweeney
Joy McSweeney (1885-1988) 'yar jaridar Ingila ce. McSweeney ya yi aure kuma ya sake shi sau biyu kafin ya sadu da Irons a wani biki a watan Yulin shekara ta 1931.  Irons ya bar Vita Sackville-West don ya zauna tare da McSweeney;  A cewar Sue Fox, mai ba da labari na Irons, "Ƙaunar ce da gani na farko. [...] Tun daga farko, ana nufin su kasance tare.

McSweeney da Irons sun sayi Lodge Hill Cottage, wani gida na karni na 16 da aka jera a Medmenham, Buckinghamshire. McSweeney ya sami gidan a cikin 1935 kuma ya tura Irons don fara hayar sannan ya sayi shi. Lokacin da McSweeney da Irons suka koma Brewster, New York, a 1952, sun yi hayar gidan ga masu haya da yawa, gami da marubucin littafin dafa abinci na Amurka Sylvia Vaughn Thompson . 

McSweeney ya mutu a shekara ta 1988,  ko da yake wani tushe ya ba da rahoton 1978. 

Sackville-West ta 1931 waƙoƙin soyayya an yi wa Irons, kodayake ba a taɓa buga "mafi yawan lalata" ba. Irons da Sackville-West sun kasance abokai na dindindin waɗanda "sun yi rubutu da kyau".

A shekara ta 1935, Irons ya lashe lambar yabo ta zinare ta Royal Humane Society ta Stanhope "don aikin jaruntaka na 1935". Ta "ceto wata mace daga nutsewa a cikin yanayi mai ƙarfin zuciya a Tres Faith Beach, Cardiganshire". Wannan shi ne karo na farko da aka ba da lambar yabo ga mace.[1] Ta sami lambar yabo daga Yarima George, Duke na York a gidansa, 145 Piccadilly, a watan Yunin 1936. [2]

Irons da McSweeney sun zauna tare har zuwa mutuwar McSweaney a shekara ta 1978.  Irons ta mutu a Brewster, New York, a ranar 3 ga Afrilu 2000, tana da shekaru 99, watanni biyu kafin ranar haihuwarta ta 100.

## Bayanan littattafai

* Mai girma, Victoria. Vita: Rayuwar V. Sackville-West . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983.

## Manazarta