Once the Rising was over Gibney remained active with the nationalist movement and joined Cumann na mBan in September of that year ( 1916 ) . She had met her fiancé Dick McKee , who was a Commandant of the Irish Volunteers and later the Irish Republican Army in Dublin , in 1915 . During the War of Independence she operated as a courier for the I.R.A. , carrying messages , hiding and moving weapons , and hid Victor Murphy , a Jacob 's factory garrison member who had avoided arrest with the others . Following the killing of about 13 British agents in Dublin , McKee and two others were arrested , interrogated , tortured and then was shot dead on Bloody Sunday on 21 November 1920 during the War of Independence
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday (1920)
May Gibney