Sydney Czira
Sidney Sarah Madge Czira (née Gifford; 3 August 1889 – 15 September 1974), known by her pen name John Brennan, was a journalist, broadcaster, writer and revolutionary. She was an active member of the revolutionary group Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Ireland) and wrote articles for its newspaper, ''Bean na h-Éireann'', and for Arthur Griffith's newspaper '' Sinn Féin''. Early life Gifford was born on 3 August 1889, the youngest of 12 children of Frederick and Isabella Gifford. Isabella Gifford ( Burton), was a niece of the artist Frederic William Burton, and was raised with her siblings in his household after the death of her father, Robert Nathaniel Burton, a rector, during the Famine. Gifford's parents—her father was Catholic and her mother Anglican—were married in St George's, a Church of Ireland church on the north side of Dublin city, on 27 April 1872. She grew up in Rathmines, Dublin. She was raised as a Protestant, as were her siblings. Like her si ...
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Rathmines
Rathmines () is an affluent inner suburb on the Southside of Dublin in Ireland. It lies three kilometres south of the city centre. It begins at the southern side of the Grand Canal and stretches along the Rathmines Road as far as Rathgar to the south, Ranelagh to the east, and Harold's Cross to the west. It is situated in the city's D06 postal district. Rathmines is a commercial and social hub and is well known across Ireland as "flatland"—an area that has provided rented accommodation to newly arrived junior civil servants and third-level students from outside the city since the 1930s. In more recent times, Rathmines has diversified its housing stock and many houses have been gentrified. Rathmines gained a reputation as a "Dublin Belgravia" in the 19th Century. Name Rathmines is an Anglicisation of the Irish , meaning "ringfort of Maonas"/"fort of Maonas". The name Maonas is perhaps derived from Maoghnes or the Norman name de Meones, after the de Meones family who settled ...
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