Máire Gill
| Máire Gill, Máire Ní Ghiolla | |
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| 3rd President of Camogie Association | |
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In office 1923–1941 |
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| Succeeded by | Agnes O’Farrelly |
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| Born |
24 March 1891 Murphystown, County Dublin |
| Died | 25 May 1977 (aged 86) Dublin, Ireland |
| Profession | printer |
| Religion | Catholic |
Máire ‘Molly’ Gill (Máire Ní Ghiolla) (1891–1977) was a political activist who became third and longest-serving president of the Camogie Association and captained a Dublin team to an All Ireland championship while serving as president of the association.
Mollie went to work with the Dun Emer industries established by Evelyn Gleeson to promote Irish crafts and industries and then with Cuala Press. She befriended the sisters of William Butler Yeats, Elixabeth and Lily, started learning Irish, and joined Inghinidhe na hÉireann and Cumann na mBan, serving on the executive committee of the Irish Republican Prisoners Dependant Fund. She took the anti-treaty side during the Civil War, and was arrested in May 1923 alongside the secretary of the Camogie Association Áine Ní Riain and was interned in Kilmainham for several months. She continued to work in Cuala Press until 1969.
She joined Crokes football and hurling club where Harry Boland was a member and marched with the Dublin camogie delegation to the funeral of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa. By 1922 she was one of Dublin’s most prominent referees and presided over meetings of the Dublin league.
When Cualacht Luithchleas na mBan Gaedheal was revived in 1923 she was elected president. Rules were changed, alnd lighter sticks were used contributing to a revival in the game, particularly in Dublin and its schools. She served as camogie’s representative on the Tailteann committee and supported the controversial withdrawal of the sport from the Tailteann festival in 1924, having captained the Dublin team that played London in an alternative international match a few weeks earlier.
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