Mary Mac Swiney was the suffragist whose brother Terence was the most famous hunger striker of the War of Independence. She became one of the first female T.D.s. But her increasingly radical views estranged her from her former comrades.
Her political career brought into conflict with the Church, the Free State, against whom she waged two hunger strikes and Eamon De Valera who she believed had forsaken the principles of 1916.
This is a biography of an amazing woman. The author treats her subject with sympathy but also points out her faults as required.