death_date death_place religion birth_place children nationality title party name birth_date known_for term spouse article_title birth_name death_cause
28 october 1976 belfast , county antrim roman catholic newry , county down séamus , seán , margaret , catherine and máire irish vice president of sinn féin sinn féin máire drumm 22 november 1919 civil the republican movement rights leader , public orator and figurehead of 1972 - 1976 james drumm -lrb- 1946-1976 -rrb- '' her death '' máire drumm
 máire mcaleer assassinated by ulster loyalist paramilitaries
máire drumm

máire drumm -lrb- 22 november 1919 -- 28 october 1976 -rrb- was the vice president of sinn féin and a commander in cumann na mban .
she was killed by ulster loyalists while recovering from an eye operation in belfast 's mater hospital .
born in newry , county down to a staunchly irish republican family .
drumm 's mother had been active in the war of independence and the civil war .
drumm grew up in the village of killean , county armagh , where she played camogie -lrb- the female form of hurling -rrb- .
she was active in the republican movement after meeting her husband , a republican prisoner , and became involved in the northern ireland civil rights association in the 1960s and worked to rehouse catholics forced from their homes by loyalist intimidation .
she was jailed twice for ` seditious speeches ' .
after she was released from hm prison armagh , raids on her house by the security forces escalated , her health began to fail and she was admitted to the mater hospital , belfast .
on 28 october 1976 , maíre drumm was shot dead in her hospital bed in a joint operation by the ulster volunteer force and the ulster defence association .
