Brigid Foley (14 April 1887 – 28 June 1970) was an Irish nationalist and republican who was one of the five women in Lewes prison as a result of the Easter Rising of 1916.
During Holy week Foley was sent to Cork with a written dispatches for Tomas McCurtain and a solicitor Mr Healy.
On one of the trips to Cork she was searched and detained by the police but the failed to discover the dispatches she carried.
[1][3] Séamus O'Connor asked Foley, with others, to transport guns stored in Arran road, Drumcondra, Dublin which needed to be moved.
Kitty O'Doherty carried out the action once a number of women and men showed up to assist on the way to the location.
She and Marie Perolz were released earlier than the rest of the women after the issue was raised in Parliament.
One her return to Ireland Foley began to arrange care packages for the men still held in prison.
[1] While in Kilmainham, Perolz attributed her survival to Foley as she had become very depressed listening to the executions of the leaders.
[8] During the time she was in prison, Foley's sister continued to run the typewriting business though the offices were wrecked during the rising.
[9] The five women in Lewes prison were Marie Perolz, Helena Molony, Nell Ryan, Winifred Carney and Foley.
She continued to run the family business and provided it, her car, and the offices to the volunteers whenever needed.
As a result of the raid on the family home and the arrest of her husband, Foley was instrumental in arranging an informant, John Reynolds, within the British troops.