Doing My Bit For Ireland: A first-hand account of the Easter Rising

Margaret Skinnider's eyewitness account of Dublin's 1916 Easter Rising, published in the UK for the first time, is a landmark edition with introduction and footnotes by Kirsty Lusk. Skinnider, a schoolteacher from Coatbridge, risked her life in armed combat for a nation she claimed in her heart as hers despite her early life in Scotland. Despite serious gunshot wounds during battle, she was refused an army pension on the grounds that they were only to be awarded 'to soldiers as generally understood in the masculine sense.' Providing an unusual and much-needed female perspective on rebellion and battle, Doing My Bit was written in the USA in the two years following the Rising and was published only in the States before going out of print. With this edition, Skinnider's lively and informative voice is made audible again, 100 years after she took part in the rising which led eventually to the partition of Ireland.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2024
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd

Margaret Skinnider's "Doing My Bit for Ireland" is a firsthand account of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, which was significant for socialists, nationalists, women, and supporters of women's suffrage. Skinnider, a schoolteacher born in Coatbridge to Irish parents, risked her life in armed combat for a nation she claimed in her heart as hers despite her early life in Scotland. Despite suffering serious gunshot wounds during battle, she was later denied an army pension on the grounds that they were only to be awarded to soldiers in the masculine sense. "Doing My Bit" was written in the USA in the two years following the Rising and was published only in the States before going out of print. With this edition, Skinnider's lively and informative voice is made audible again, 100 years after she took part in the rising that led to the partition of Ireland.

Weight: 200g
Dimension: 128 x 198 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781804251331