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Maire MacSwiney Brugha:
After my aunt’s death in 1942 I missed her very much. She had been very close to me. I could never understand the public image by which she was portrayed as ‘merciless Minnie’, a hard and unforgiving woman. The other person who was so maligned was Cathal Brugha, being portrayed as a ruthless killer, only considering violent solutions, where in fact he was a truthful and a thoughtful man who tried to find a solution to save the Republic. Pondering about the images created around these two people, I often wondered later had it to do with British propaganda. They obviously were the most prominent opponents of the Treaty, along with de Valera. So it was in the British interest to defame them and to laud people like Griffith and Collins.
It was not till much later that I understood how this came about. Peter Wright, who had been a member of the British Intelligence Service, revealed some relevant information in his famous book, Spy Catcher. I read all the extracts in The Irish Times where he explained that there was a section in the British Intelligence Service whose sole task it was to deal exclusively with black propaganda against those they considered to be enemies of Britain.
It was then that I finally understood how people like my aunt and Cathal Brugha acquired this reputation. Of course de Valera, who had a long public life, was able to establish his own reputation. I could never understand why the Irish media, and later historians, followed the same British propaganda, nor why they have retained to this day the image Cathal Brugha and Mary MacSwiney created at that time. Hopefully a true account of their lives will be written at some time in the future.
‘History’s Daughter – A memoir from the child of Terence MacSwiney’,Maire MacSwiney Brugha
(P166/167)