__NOTOC__ Alice Stopford Green (30 May 1847 – 28 May 1929) was an Irish

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

and

nationalist Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ...

. She was born Alice Sophia Amelia Stopford in Kells,

County Meath County Meath (; gle, Contae na Mí or simply ) is a county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster. It is bordered by Dublin to the southeast, Louth to the northeast, Kildare to the south, Offaly to the sou ...

. Her father Edward Adderley Stopford was Rector of Kells and

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. Her paternal grandfather was Edward Stopford, the

Church of Ireland The Church of Ireland ( ga, Eaglais na hÉireann, ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Kirk o Airlann, ) is a Christian church in Ireland and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. It is organised on an all-Ireland basis and is the second ...

Bishop of Meath The Bishop of Meath is an episcopal title which takes its name after the ancient Kingdom of Meath. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains as a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with another bishopric. History Unti ...

, and she was a cousin of

Stopford Brooke Stopford Brooke may refer to; * Stopford Brooke (chaplain) (1832–1916), Irish writer, critic, clergyman, and royal chaplain * Stopford Brooke (politician) (1859–1938), British Member of Parliament, 1906–1910 {{hndis, Brooke, Stopford ...

and

Mother Mary Clare Mother Mary Clare (born: Clare Emma Whitty, 30 May 1883 – 6 November 1950) was an Irish Anglican nun, missionary and botanist who died during a nine-day death march led by retreating North Korean soldiers during the Korean War. She arrived ...

. From 1874 to 1877 she lived in London where she met the historian

John Richard Green John Richard Green (12 December 1837 – 7 March 1883) was an English historian. Early life Green was born on 12 December 1837, the son of a tradesman in Oxford, where he was educated, first at Magdalen College School, and then at Jesus C ...

. They were married in Chester on 14 June 1877. He died in 1883.

John Morley John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, (24 December 1838 – 23 September 1923) was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially, a journalist in the North of England and then editor of the newly Liberal-leani ...

published her first historical work ''Henry II'' in 1888. In the 1890s she became interested in Irish history and the nationalist movement as a result of her friendship with John Francis Taylor. She was vocal in her opposition to English colonial policy in South Africa during the

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and supported

Roger Casement Roger David Casement ( ga, Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn; 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist executed by the United Kingdom for treason during Worl ...

's Congo Reform movement. Her 1908 book ''The Making of Ireland and its Undoing'' argued for the sophistication and richness of the native Irish civilisation. Stopford Green was active in efforts to make the prospect of

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more palatable to

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. Alongside the Rev.

James Armour James Brown Armour (1841–1928), usually known as J. B. Armour, was an Irish Presbyterian minister who sought to rally Protestant opinion in the north of Ireland in support of tenant right and against landlordism, and, in his later years, in fav ...

and

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, she addressed "A Protestant Protest" against

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Town Hall in October 1913. She was closely involved in the

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of July 1914, having extended Casement a loan to help buy the German arms. She moved to Dublin in 1918 where her house at 90

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became an intellectual centre. She supported the pro-

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side in the

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and was among the first nominees to the newly formed

Seanad Éireann Seanad Éireann (, ; "Senate of Ireland") is the upper house of the Oireachtas (the Irish legislature), which also comprises the President of Ireland and Dáil Éireann (the lower house). It is commonly called the Seanad or Senate and its memb ...

in 1922, where she served as an independent member until her death in 1929. She was one of four women elected or appointed to the first Seanad in 1922.The other women were

Jennie Wyse Power Jane Wyse Power ( ga, Siobhán Bean an Phaoraigh; ; 1 May 1858 – 5 January 1941) was an Irish activist, feminist, politician and businesswoman. She was a founder member of Sinn Féin and also of Inghinidhe na hÉireann. She rose in the ranks t ...

Ellen Cuffe, Countess of Desart Ellen Odette Cuffe, Countess of Desart (; 1 September 1857 – 29 June 1933) was a London-born Jewish woman who was best known as an Irish politician, company director, Gaelicist and philanthropist in Ireland. She has been called '"the most impo ...

, and

Eileen Costello Eileen (Ellen) Costello (; ; 27 June 1870 – 4 March 1962) was an English-born Irish politician, writer, teacher and folklorist. Family She was born Edith Drury on 27 June 1870 in St Pancras workhouse in London. Some accounts state her father, ...

Works

*
Henry the Second
' (1903) first pub. 1888. *
Town Life in the Fifteenth Century Vol. I
' (1894) *
Town Life in the Fifteenth Century Vol. II
' (1894) *
The making of Ireland and its undoing, 1200-1600
' (1909) first pub. 1908. *
Irish nationality
' (c1911). *
The old Irish world
' (1912) *
Loyalty and disloyalty: what it means in Ireland
' ( 918? * ''A History of the Irish State to 1014'' published in 1925, was her last major work.

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