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I am trying to write a draft article on bee walshe which I won't finish today but I can't see how I can save this page in my sandbox so I can come back later.

Beatrice (Bee) Walshe - born in Balla, Co Mayo in 1855, died in Sydney 11 November 1901 was a land activist, social justice fundraiser, executive member of the Ladies Land League, and writer.

Bee Walshe was a founding member of the 13 strong executive committee of the Irish Ladies Land League, which met first in Dublin on 31 January 1881.

When Anna Parnell made her first public speaking appearance – in Claremorris, in Co Mayo - on 13 Feb 1881, she was met there by women land activists of Mayo – including Ann Deane, and Bee Walshe, local and experienced activists, knowledgeable about the politics and poverty of Mayo.

Bee Walshe was one of 12 children born to William Walshe and Margaret (nee Kenny), Mayo tenant farmers. The family appear to have been bi-lingual, certainly highly literate in English, and many of them, with their cousins the Nallys, were activists for land security in a county that Bee’s brother John Walshe would later describe as one ‘that could supply the paupers for the whole of Europe. ‘