Mary Spring Rice

Mary Ellen Spring Rice (14 September 1880 – 1 December 1924) was an Irish nationalist activist during the early 20th century.

Before the First World War, Spring Rice hosted many Irish nationalist and Conradh na Gaeilge meetings at her home, and she became a close friend of Douglas Hyde and her cousin Nelly O'Brien.

Together with Molly Childers, she raised £2,000 towards the purchase of 900 Mauser rifles from Germany, many of which were used in the 1916 Easter Rising.

Spring Rice sailed on the Asgard to collect the guns and helped to unload them in Ireland.

[1] Spring Rice started to suffer from tuberculosis in 1923, and died in a sanatorium in Clwyd, Wales, on 1 December 1924.