Constance Markievicz
Also known as Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz, Constance Georgina Markievicz, Constance Georgine Gore-Booth, Madame de Markievicz, Mme de Markievicz, Constance Georgine Markievicz, Madame Markievicz, Constance, Countess Markiewicz
Irish politician, first woman elected to the Westminster House of Commons and the Dáil Éireann, and first female Cabinet member in Europe
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- Born
- 1868
- Died
- 1927
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- 6
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- Prison letters of Countess Markievicz (Constance Gore-Booth)
- Prison letters of Countess Markievicz (Constance Gore-Booth)
- A call to the women of Ireland
- Prison letters of Countess Markievicz
- Prison letters of Countess Markievicz (Constance Gore-Booth). also Poems and articles relating to Easter Week
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Constance Georgine Markievicz (Polish: Markiewicz [marˈkʲɛvitʂ]; née Gore-Booth; 4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927), also known as Countess Markievicz and Madame Markievicz, was an Irish revolutionary nationalist politician, suffragist and socialist who was the first woman elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Born in London, she came from the Anglo-Irish Protestant landowning elite, which she abandoned in favour of Irish independence and social reform.
A founding member of Fianna Éireann, Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army, she took part in the Easter Rising in 1916, when Irish republicans attempted to end British rule and establish an Irish Republic. She was sentenced to death but her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on the grounds of her sex.
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