242:. Initially she got involved by organising the care of children orphaned by the Second World War. She represented the Irish Red Cross at conferences in Toronto, Oslo, Monaco, New Delhi, Geneva, Vienna, The Hague, Athens, Istanbul, Prague. She and her husband handled refugees from Czechoslovakia and Poland. Through the Red Cross she was able to ascertain the status of Irish held by the Spanish during the
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By 1918 de Barra represented West Cork in the Cumann na mBan convention and became a member of the executive committee. She left her teaching career to focus fully on the organisation required by the republican movement in 1918. She travelled the country by train and by bicycle to get women to join
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Hibernian Bank. It was while she was in the bank that she came closest to death, standing beside Captain Thomas Weafer while he was shot. Another soldier who went to his aid was also shot. De Barra barely had time to grab Capt. Weafer before he died. She was the person sent to fetch a
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Born Leslie Mary Price in Dublin in 1893 to
Michael and Mary Price. Her father was a blacksmith and she was one of six children. She wanted to be a teacher and by 1911 had become a Monitress, a common way for girls to get into the teaching profession. Two of her brothers were involved in the
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Patrick's street from the 1940s until his death in 1980. She died on 9 April 1984 in Cork and is buried with her husband in St Finbarr's. She is remembered today in the Leslie Bean de Barra Trophy awarded for the Cork Area Carer of the Year.
156:. In advance of the Rising, with the confusion over orders and lack of information, she stated that she "did not question anything" as, with all that was happening, there were often odd events in her house. But they were all waiting for the mobilisation orders for the Easter Rising.
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to set up specific lines of communication between Dublin and the
Provincial commands. Within the year the organisation had grown from 17 to over 600 branches. She was Director of the organisation during the period up to the end of the war.
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185:. Once they reached the hospital on Jervis Street she parted company from Duffy and headed to Jacob's factory to see how the rebels were getting on there. She was also arrested and held in Broadstone Station but quickly released.
774:"Frederick C. Lindvall, William McCausland Stewart, Rev. Paul Henry SJ, Michael Tierney, Seán MacEntee, Éamon de Valera, Leslie de Barra and Emmanuel C. Amoroso at the presentation of honorary degrees, Iveagh House, Dublin"
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In 1956 a memorial to 1916 was unveiled in
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were guests. Her husband was staunchly Anti-Treaty even though he had been friends with
Collins. Although her husband was a staunch republican and a major figure in the
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and other posts. She did her role well during the Rising and gained the respect of many Irish
Republicans. On the orders of one of the principal leaders of the rising -
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organisation in the late 1950s. In 1962, with the Red Cross de Barra launched the "Freedom from hunger" campaign in
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priest for the dying and wounded soldiers on the
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were promoted in the field and treated as Officers. de Barra later admitted that the job was stressful. She was stationed both in the
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The Glorious Madness – Tales of the Irish and the Great War: First-hand accounts of Irish men and women in the First World War
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788:"Women of the Revolution: Leslie de Barra of Cumann na mBan"
804:. Standing commission of the Red Cross and Red Crescent.
578:"Does Tom Barry's wedding photo reveal veiled tensions?"
111:(née Price; 9 January 1893 – 9 April 1984) was an Irish
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423:. Cork: The Collins Press. p. 71.
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366:. Chambers Harrap Publishers. 2006.
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625:"The Legacy of Cumann na mban"
599:. St. Padraic Press. pp.
491:. Irish Medals. Archived from
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646:. President of Ireland Site.
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695:. Palgrave Macmillan.
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