{"id":3349,"date":"2017-10-21T09:50:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T09:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:46:44","slug":"mrs-elizabeth-oreilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/mrs-elizabeth-oreilly\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Mrs. Elizabeth O\u2019Reilly, Aghards, Celbridge, Co. Kildare, 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Irish Press<\/em> 7 October 1976<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>OBITUARY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MRS. ELIZABETH O\u2019REILLY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Elizabeth O\u2019Reilly, of Aghards, Celbridge, Co. Kildare, who has died, was a member of Cumann na mBan as a young woman and served almost a year in prison for her political activities then.\u00a0 She was a member of Old IRA intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Known as Tilla Cregan before her marriage, her home at Tyrconnell Road in Inchicore was the first house in Dublin raided by Auxiliaries, and was subsequently raided on regular occasions by the Black and Tans.<\/p>\n<p>She was friendly with a number of the leading political figures of the time and was particularly close to the mother of the Pearse brothers, Padraig and Willie.\u00a0 In later years, she was closely associated with the Fianna Fail party.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. O\u2019Reilly, who was 80, was the widow of Eugene O\u2019Reilly, who served as captain in the 4th Battalion of the Old IRA.\u00a0 Her brother C. L. Cregan, was shot dead during the Civil War in 1922. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Owena Stokes, Celbridge, and a number of grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish Press 7 October 1976 OBITUARY MRS. ELIZABETH O\u2019REILLY Mrs. Elizabeth O\u2019Reilly, of Aghards, Celbridge, Co. Kildare, who has died, was a member of Cumann na mBan as a young woman and served almost a year in prison for her political activities then.\u00a0 She was a member of Old IRA intelligence. Known as Tilla Cregan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decade-of-centenaries","category-obituaries"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7808,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions\/7808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}