Annie Mary Patricia Smithson (26 September 1873 – 21 February 1948) was an Irish novelist, poet and Nationalist.
About 1881 her mother married her second husband, Peter Longshaw, who owned a chemical factory in Warrington in Lancashire.
[3] She became a member of Cumann na mBan and campaigned for Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election.
She took the Republican side in the Irish Civil War and nursed participants in the siege at Moran's Hotel.
[3] In 1922 she was imprisoned by Free State forces and was rescued from Mullingar prison by Linda Kearns McWhinney and Muriel MacSwiney, posing as a Red Cross delegation.
Many of her works are highly romantic and draw on her own life experiences, with nationalism and Catholicism featuring as recurrent themes.