Witness Statement Margaret Browne MacEntee Witness statement from Margaret Brown MacEntee (WS322) who acted as a courier in 1916. Margaret was the wife of Irish politician Sean MacEntee. Text 1949-11-18 Bureau of Military History © Irish Defence Forces, Bureau of Military History Mary Brown MacEnteePearse, Patrick Henry (1879–1916)Mac Diarmada (MacDermott), Seán (1883–1916O'Kelly, Seán Thomas (Ó Ceallaigh, Seán Tomás) (1882–1966)MacEntee, Sean (John) Francis (1889–1984)Curated Collection--Communicating the RisingIreland--History--Easter Rising, 1916Women RevolutionariesCurated Collection--Women and the RisingParamilitary forces--Cumann na mBanRepublicanismname=Dublin, Ireland; north=53.3478 ; east=-6.25972name=Galway; north=53.280639; west=-9.055970name=Twentieth century; start=1900-01-01; end=1999-12-31engWS322DocumentsInterviewsmilitary recordsShe discusses meeting Kit Ryan (later married to Sean T. O'Kelly) as well as Patrick Pearse, and being given messages to deliver from Dublin to Galway on Holy Thursday by Sean McDermott. Margaret came from a prominent republican family, and studied Irish and modern languages at UCD and was awarded an MA in 1917. She had joined Cumann na mBan before the Easter Rising. She worked for the Sinn Féin election campaign in 1918 and then for the Belfast boycott in 1920–22.Curated Collection--Remembering the Rising