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Multiple 1920s-30s images (not video) Interview, 1970 "Ireland: A Television History" (1980) Radio interview, about 1980

"The Struggle" (2003) "B'í Mo Mhamó í" (2012) RTE Radio (2014) "Cumann na mBan" (2015)

Sighle Humphreys - Video and audio

Video and audio of (and related to) the revolutionary Sighle Humphreys.

• Audio yet to be consulted:
  • [P106/1423] might have more on the 1970 interview.
  • [P106/625] refers to a TV program of 1976 which featured Sighle.
  • Interview of Sighle by Richard English, 1987, audiotape. Referenced in Sighle's entry in [DIB].
  • Ríoch Magan tape-recorded Sighle, c.1988.
  • Ruán Magan tape-recorded Sighle.

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Multiple 1920s-30s images (not video)

Apparently the following sets of multiple images in quick succession, from the 1920s-30s, are not from actual films.

Rather, they were a commmon practice at the time of street photographers snapping multiple images of people on the street and then selling them to you.

Nell and Sighle, Paris, c.1927.
This is from [P106/485]. See larger and full size.
See one frame.

Sighle and Dick, Dublin.
This is [P106/1035(3)]. See larger and full size.

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Interview, 1970

Interview by Cormac O'Malley and someone else.

Interview with Sighle, 1970, about the 1922 raid.
Length: 18 minutes.

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"Ireland: A Television History" (1980)

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Radio interview, about 1980

Interview with Sighle, "Women Today", RTE Radio, about 1980.
Definitely post-1979.
Sighle recalls her life. She recalls the 1916 Rising, and her 1923 hunger strike.
She declares her unhappiness with the way independent Ireland turned out and her desire to see a socialist, Irish-speaking, united Ireland.
Length: 28 min.

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The Struggle (2003)

Sighle was portrayed by an actress in the drama-documentary The Struggle (2003), made by her grandsons Manchán and Ruán Magan.

It is a dramatisation of the Free State raid on Ailesbury Rd in the Civil War, Nov 1922.

Sighle was played by Frances Healy.

Sighle's first arrest, for painting slogans in 1922 in the Civil War, re-created by an actress in The Struggle.
See other shot and other shot.

Actress playing Sighle.

Sighle, in her dressing-gown, firing a gun in the Nov 1922 raid, as played by an actress.
See full size.

Actress playing Sighle.

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"B'í Mo Mhamó í" (2012)

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RTE Radio (2014)

Sighle featured in a show on the 100th anniversary of Cumann na mBan, "Morning Ireland", RTE Radio, 2 Apr 2014.

• There are two items:
  • "100 years since the foundation of Cumann na mBan". Report by Louise Byrne. Clips from Sighle's RTE interview of c.1980. Interview with Sighle's daughter Cróine Magan.
  • "Remembering the women involved in Cumann na mBan". A historian discusses the movement.

• There is an accompanying site:
  • Forgotten Heroes: Women of the revolution by Louise Byrne.
  • It says The O'Rahilly was "the only person" to die in action in 1916 but this should say "the only leader".
  • It says Sighle was jailed for 3 years, but note this figure is from adding up multiple times in prison rather than a single stretch.

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"Cumann na mBan" (2015)

"Cumann na mBan", TV drama-documentary, TG4, 8 Mar 2015.

• Online at TG4 Player.
• Features Sighle and Nancy O'Rahilly.
• There is a dramatisation of the death of The O'Rahilly.
• Interviews with Cróine Magan and Frank O'Rahilly.

Sighle under arrest in the Civil War, as portrayed by actress Aoibheann McCann in the drama-documentary.
The quote "we thrive on suppression" was actually said at her 1931-1932 trial, though.

The cast.

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