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» Deirdre Whelan Martina Shanahan’s life began in 1965. The youngest of six, my baby sister was born at home in Rathfarnham, Dublin I remember the night, even though I was only five at the time. I remember waking up to the sound of a baby crying, and when I said it to my sister Mary, she told me “Go back to sleep. It’s only cats”. Next morning, there was Martina in my mother’s arms and our life together began. Ours was a Republican home. We were brought up with stories about my aunt Jennie Shanahan, who had fought in City Hall in 1916, and my grandfather Patrick Shanahan who also took part in the Rising. Our father was an active Republican and made us very aware of what was happening in the North. I remember in the early seventies, we had children staying with us, who had been brought South to get a break from the pogroms that were happening in Belfast and other parts of the North. ....
Martina Shanahan, jailed for IRA plot to kill former Secretary of State Tom King, has died in Spain at 56 Protest in London in the 1980s at the imprisonment of the Winchester Three. Martina Shanihan, who passed away in Spain this week. Dublin born republican Martina Shanahan, jailed for an IRA plot to kill former Secretary of State Tom King, has died in Spain at the age of 56. A member of the so-called Winchester Three , the trial gained global attention when along with her co accused, Finbar Cullen and John McCann, they were found guilty at Winchester Crown Court in 1987 and sentenced to 25 years in prison. ....