death_date death_place pseudonym birth_place nationality native_name birth_date article_title birth_name occupation
11 october 1960 dublin , ireland f. winthrop south parade , waterford , ireland irish róisín nic sheamuis 13 october 1888 rosamund jacob
 rosamond jacob writer , activist
rosamund jacob

rosamond jacob -lrb- 13 october 1888 -- 11 october 1960 -rrb- was an irish writer and activist .
she was born to lapsed quaker parents , lewis jacob and henrietta harvey , in waterford , where she lived until 1920 .
she was a lifelong activist for suffragist , republican and socialist causes and a writer of fiction .
her first novel was called `` callaghan '' and was published in 1920 .
she , along with her brother tom , was a member of sinn féin from 1905 and later fianna fáil .
she was also a member of cumann na mban , the gaelic league and the irish women 's franchise league .
she opposed the anglo-irish treaty of 1921 and was especially involved in left-wing and republican organisations in the 1920s and 1930s .
she was imprisoned in mountjoy jail during the irish civil war .
in 1931 she travelled to russia as a delegate of the irish friends of soviet russia .
she was involved in the women 's international league for peace and freedom and later in the irish housewives association .
in the 1920s and 1930s she was involved in a relationship with fellow republican frank ryan .
she played a leading role in the political campaign to secure ryan 's freedom from nationalist spain , and later worked to defend his reputation after news of his death in nazi germany became known .
she lived in the rathmines area of dublin from at least 1942 , firstly in belgrave square .
from 1950 she shared a house with her friend lucy kingston at 17 charleville road .
she died in 1960 .
rosamond jacob kept a diary almost all of her life , and there are 171 of these diaries among her literary and political papers held in the national library of ireland .
