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Alice Higgins

Alice Higgins was born in The Square, Liscarroll, Co. Cork in 1899.

The eldest of four children of Daniel and Sarah (nee Culhane), general grocers.

Educated at the local National School and later at F.C.J. Convent, Bruff, Co. Limerick.

Co-founder with Mim O'Brien of the local branch of Cumann na Mban in 1917.

Alice met John Higgins (who worked in Charleville), through her brother Tom, a member of the local IRA area company which was part of the Charleville Battalion.

Following the War of Independence and toward the end of the Civil War a group of local officers and men were arrested in the shop by the Free State Army and interred in Limerick and later at the Curragh. They were released in the amnesty of 1924.

Alice Canty married John Higgins in 1937. They had four children. They lived in Limerick for awhile and later in Ballycar, Newmarket on Fergus where she died in 1969.