Nora Ashe
Nora Ashe (15 July 1882 – 20 January 1970) was an Irish teacher, nationalist, and Irish language activist. Early life and family Nora Ashe was born in Kinard, Lispole, County Kerry on 15 July 1882. She was the third daughter of the ten children of Gregory Ashe, a farmer, and Ellen (née Hanafin). Her parents were native, fluent Irish speakers, and while English was the language in the Ashe home, Ashe herself was bilingual. Her younger brother was Thomas Ashe. Due to their father's influence, all of the children were interested in Irish music, literature and history. Ashe attended the Loreto school in Killarney. She taught at the Kilrush Mercy convent school, before going on to attend Carysfort College, where she was taught by Éamon de Valera often conversing with him in Irish. After finishing her teaching training, she taught in Cappamore, County Limerick. During the Easter Rising, Ashe was in Cappamore. Through her brother Thomas, she became a close acquaintance with Austin Stack, Seán Mac Diarmada, Michael Collins, and Sean O'Casey. While Thomas was imprisoned after the Rising in Ireland and then England, Ashe visited and wrote to him and a number of his colleagues, it was through her