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Irish historian, politician and nationalist (1847–1929)
For the American political activist, see Alice Green.
In the 1890s she became interested in Irish history and the nationalist movement as a result of her friendship with John Francis Taylor. She was vocal in her opposition to English colonial policy in South Africa during the Boer Wars and supported Roger Casement's Congo Reform movement. Her 1908 book The Making of Ireland and its Undoing argued for the sophistication and richness of the native Irish civilisation. Stopford Green was active in efforts to make the prospect of Home Rule more palatable to Ulster Unionists. Alongside the Rev. James Armour, Roger Casement and Jack White, she addressed "A Protestant Protest" against Carson's Solemn League and Covenant at Ballymoney Town Hall in October 1913. She was closely involved in the Howth gun-running of July 1914, having extended Casement a loan to help buy the German arms.
She moved to Dublin in 1918 where her house at 90 St Stephen's Green became an intellectual centre. She supported the pro-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and was among the first nominees to the newly formed Seanad Éireann in 1922, where she served as an independent member until her death in 1929. She was one of four women elected or appointed to the first Seanad in 1922.
^ "Alice Stopford Green". Encyclopædia Britannica. 28 May 1929. Retrieved 5 February 2009.
"England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000", index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F7M6-SFR : accessed 11 Mar 2014), John Richard Green and Alice Sophia Amelia Stopford, 1877.
Ullans Speakers Association (2013). A Ripple in the Pond: The Home Rule Revolt in North Antrim. Ballymoney: Ulster Scots Agency.
Inglis, B (1973). Roger Casement. Coronet. ISBN0-340-18292-X, pp. 262-265.
Portrait taken in the 1880s