This article explores the untold stories of Irish women who risked their lives during World War II to fight against Nazi occupation.
The French Resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II was a force of ordinary men and women fighting for freedom at great risk. Numbering about 500,000 people, working in small cells, it carried out acts of sabotage, intelligence gathering, and aided Jews and Allied escapees during the German occupation. More than 90,000 resisters were killed, tortured or deported by the Nazi.
Now British prime minister has said he will make 2025 the year to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. He wants to honour - and take inspiration from - the greatest generation that achieved peace in Europe. Ireland also had a part in this story. Until now, it has remained largely untold. However a book on our role in the resistance - The Irish in the Resistance by Clodagh Finn and John Morgan- now chronicles it. The stories of the women involved are particularly fascinating. Here we take a look at some of the Irish women whose clandestine activities were largely forgotten until now. It includes operatives like Mary O’Shaughnessy, whose War Crimes trial testimony exposed the shocking barbarism of Nazi rule; the fascinating performer Agnes Bernelle and Margaret Kelly, who founded the famous “Bluebell” girls dance troupe. Mary O’Shaughnessy The testimony of ‘Irish Governess’, Mary O’Shaughnessy at the 1946 Nazi War Crimes trials was so shocking and revealing, it made headlines worldwide. Taking the witness stand in Hamburg, O’Shaughnessy’s voice faltered at first but she was thorough in outlining the torture, the murdered, the daily cruelties, the depravity. There was the female SS guard who smashed her teeth, sisters Germaine and Madeleine Tambor who when one was being taken away to be gassed, the other ran across to join her
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