Wallace sisters

Nora Wallace (1893– 17 September 1970) and Sheila Wallace (1887 – 14 April 1944) were business women who owned a newsagents on Brunswick Street, now known as St Augustine Street in Cork, who were also Intelligence officers for the IRA during the Irish War of Independence and used their premises as a meeting place and brigade headquarters.

Biography

Nora and Sheila Wallace were born in Cork, Ireland. They grew up in Donoughmore before moving to Cork city in 1910. They were the daughters of Jeremiah and Mary Wallace (née Keeffe). They had eight other siblings. The family were Catholic, socialist and nationalist.