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unionist area that prompted her dismissal. She was given a reference which bore testimony to her ability as a teacher and her power of organization. Her time in the north of the country had confirmed her belief that history and education were essential but that the culture lead to the unionists to be less accepting of their nationalist compatriots.
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in April 1914. She was selected as a national organiser. As a teacher she was free during her holidays and spent them travelling around
Ireland founding local branches. Her selection for this role was due to her background as a public speaker at literary and suffragette meetings. She was working in
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and was a signatory to the letter addressed to the
President and the Houses of Congress of the United States of America asking for recognition of the Irish Republic. She didn't remain in Newtownards and worked in Wexford as a teacher for most of her life, continuing to be vocal about feminism and
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In the summer of 1916, after the Rising and executions were over
Bloxham was dismissed from her position in Newtownards. In previous years she had been asked to stay and given enticements to do so. She believed that it was her outspoken support of the Volunteers while working in such a strongly
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Bloxham's statements, reports and writings about the era give an insight into the views of the people involved, Protestant and
Catholic, Northern and Southern. She retired from teaching in 1944. Once retired she moved to Dublin and was living there when she documented her participation in the
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nationalism. She resigned from the
National Executive because 'she disapproved of the shooting of policemen', according to Eileen McCarville's statement to the Bureau of Military History. Her brother, RIC Sergeant Henry J. Bloxham, was killed in 1921 in an ambush near Waterfall, County Cork.
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