{"id":212204,"date":"2025-12-26T17:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/212204\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T17:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:34:14","slug":"how-irelands-maureen-osullivan-became-an-allied-agent-in-the-french-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/212204\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ireland&#8217;s Maureen O\u2019Sullivan became an Allied agent in the French Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">\u201cA tough type of woman, at the moment growing quite a successful moustache&#8230; Not particularly intelligent, and does not seem [to] take her work very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Despite this blistering account of her capabilities written by a training officer, Maureen O\u2019Sullivan was one of the most successful Allied agents in the French Resistance, lasting seven months in the field compared to an average life expectancy of six weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Her fascinating life story has been uncovered in recent years and she\u2019s been honoured in France.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA tough type of woman, at the moment growing quite a successful moustache&#8230; Not particularly intelligent, and does&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28122,110512,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-212204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-podcasts-home","tag-the-deirdre-o-shaughnessy-podcast","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}