About the author

Margaret Skinnider (1892–1971) was an Irish republican and teacher. Her best-known experience was taking part in the 1916 Easter Rising, where she served as a sniper and was wounded. Her representative work, Doing My Bit for Ireland, recounts this personal experience and belongs to first-hand memoir writing; its style is plain and direct, focusing on showing the actions and feelings of an individual within a major historical event. Public information is limited, and few details of her life and literary assessments are available; the library holds only one of her works. Overall, the value of her writing lies mainly in leaving a female participant's on-the-spot perspective on the Easter Rising, which is of documentary significance for understanding the activities of Irish republicans at the time and the situation of ordinary participants.

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