Sydney Gifford

Life
[Sydney Gifford Czira; née Gifford; pseud “John Brennan”]; sis. of Muriel and Grace Gifford, and through the former a sister-in-law of Thomas MacDonagh; as John Brennan contrib. ‘Ought Irishwomen have political equality with men?’ to Bean na hEireann, No. 15 (1909); issued a memoir, The Years Flew By (1974), giving reminiscences and records of the Republican movement in Ireland and America.

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Works
The Years Flew By (Dublin 1974), rep. edn., ed. Alan Hayes, intro. introduced by Gifford Lewis (Dublin: Arlen House 2000). 241pp.,

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Criticism

• Alan Hayes, ed., The Years Flew By: Recollections of Madame Sidney Gifford Czira (Galway: Arlen House 2001), 104pp. [Gifford used pseud. John Brennan]

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