Publisher's Synopsis
Skinnider (1892-1971) was a school-teacher, suffragist and nationalist who was wounded while fighting in the uniform of the Irish Volunteers during the Easter Rising of 1916. She fled to America in fear of internment and whilst there collected funds for the republican cause and delivered lectures, but on her return to Ireland she was arrested and imprisoned. This autobiography was written and published in 1917 while she was in New York.
