‘Save Me from My Friends’: The Transnational Intimacies of an Irish-Latvian Couple within and beyond the Irish Revolution, 1916–1921

What can a focus on intimacies and affinities between radical immigrants in Ireland their Irish counterparts tell us about the transnational scope of global revolution? This article answers this question through lives Rose MacKenna, an playwright socialist, her husband Sidney Arnold, Latvian literary translator. The activist career obscure Irish-Latvian couple took them from revolutionary Dublin wake Easter Rising to Petrograd aftermath Russian Revolution. argues that MacKenna by virtue obscurity marginality, rather than spite it, suggest sources methodologies required uncover world Ireland's intelligentsia.