Born into privilege but drawn to revolution, Constance Markievicz lived a life of striking contradictions. The daughter of a wealthy Anglo-Irish family, she turned her back on societal expectations to ...

“Mr. David Lloyd George is the most despicable man in the world.” —Maxim of the COUNTESS MARKIEVICZ When Constance Georgine, Countess of Markievicz, died in Dublin last week, there were some few ...

Irish revolution hero set to be first woman to be honored with a statue on Ireland’s most famous street to celebrate the suffragettes on the centenary of women getting the vote. Irish revolution hero ...

Constance Markievicz, also known as Countess Markievicz, has been solidified as an extremely important figure in Irish history. An Irish revolutionary nationalist politician, suffragist, and socialist ...

On 2 March 1922 Constance Markievicz, by then a strongly anti-Treaty member of the Dáil, addressed her fellow TDs and, in a short but oddly bipartisan speech, urged them to support female suffrage in ...

It only seems like yesterday that the Lissadell estate was embrolied in one of the longest legal dispute in Ireland’s history which went all the way to the Supreme Court after a mammoth hearing in the ...

A magnificent new monument commemorating the life and times of Constance Markievicz could be erected in Sligo before Easter now that a site for the ?100,000 sc... By Leo Gray A magnificent new ...

It sounded absurd: traveling to Ireland to learn about the owner of a desk. But this wasn’t any ordinary desk — or any ordinary owner. I collect rare books on early America. It’s a hobby propelled by ...