Alice Ginnell

Alice Ginnell, née King, was born in 1882 at Kilbride, near Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, and died in 1967. The Westmeath Examiner, marking the centenary of the mission in July 2021, describes her as a republican fundraiser and publicist and as her husband's partner in the Dáil's 1921–22 mission to South America. Her first-class Spanish was a key asset.

She and Laurence Ginnell arrived in Buenos Aires on 25 July 1921 aboard the SS Martha Washington and worked there until April 1922 as de Valera's envoys. The mission launched a loan aimed at £500,000; P.J. Little's report of October 1921 expected no more than £10,000 to £15,000 to be raised, partly because of a slump in the cattle market. The Argentine foreign ministry's 2017 exhibition catalogue says that Ginnell and Patrick Little were sent to assist Eamon Bulfin, and that with Anita Bulfin and Alice Ginnell they won funding and support from much of the diaspora. The Westmeath Examiner says the mission foundered after the Treaty of December 1921.

The research holds little more on her than this. The entry rests on the centenary article, Little's report and the foreign ministry catalogue.