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24: 106: 132: 120: 145: 94: 204:. After a first child who died in infancy, there were six daughters and six sons. The sons (Claude Frederick, Liebert, Gerald Vere, Gabriel Paul, Frederick Ernest, and Edward Cecil), though nominally baptised as Catholics (their father's religion), remained unionist and pursued unspectacular careers outside Ireland. 312:. Took part in the 1916 Easter Rising as Madame Markievicz' aide de camp in Stephen's Green and the Royal College of Surgeons. Was jailed after the Rising but on release went to the United States until after the Civil War had ended when she returned to Ireland. 211:. The children were raised as Protestants, though in adulthood four sisters converted to Catholicism (Katie, Muriel, Grace, and Sidney, all having married Catholics). All the sisters, except for one (Ada), were prominent republicans. 192:
in Dublin. Isabella's father, Robert Nathaniel Burton, died in her infancy, after which she and her siblings were raised by their uncle, the painter
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Frederick Gifford (1835/36–1917), a Catholic solicitor, married Isabella Julia Burton (1847/48–1932), daughter of a
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Lived in Wales until her husband's death in 1918 during the 'flu epidemic. Civil servant in the
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Artist, emigrated to the United States. May have married a man named Constant.
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Artist and cartoonist. Married Plunkett hours before his execution after the
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who were daughters of Frederick and Isabella Gifford, middle-class Dublin
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and Barbara (Bairbre) Redmond (née MacDonagh). Died while swimming at
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Unlikely Rebels: The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom
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White, Lawrence William; Long, Patrick (February 2011).
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republicans
Irish revolutionary period
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1916 Proclamation
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Church of Ireland
St. George's Church of Ireland church
Frederic William Burton
Palmerston Road
Rathmines
Alexandra College
Irish Republic
Irish Free State
Irish White Cross
Helen Ruth (Nellie)
Dublin lockout
Irish Citizen Army
Muriel Enid

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