Mulvihill, Margaret. Charlotte Despard: A Biography. Pandora.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katharine Tynan | KT
also discusses here the poor working and living conditions she found in Dublin in 1911. In other chapters she describes the rural Irish lifestyle, a way of life to which she had to adjust... |
Textual Features | Anne Devlin | |
Textual Features | Olivia Manning | This remained the only one of her novels to deal with the troubles in Ireland. It is set in June 1921, a month in which the prospect of an Irish Free State was growing but... |
Residence | Constance, Countess Markievicz | The principal participants were CCM
, Helena Molony
, and Bulmer Hobson
(Constance's husband was in the Ukraine). They held Fianna
camps there, and commuted back into Dublin for Sinn Féin
and Inghinidhe na hEireann |
politics | Charlotte Despard | |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | CCM
returned home to further conflict. Shortly after losing her seat in the Pact Election of June 1922, she joined the IRA Irregulars
in a violent seizure of prominent public buildings, the Four Courts, in... |
politics | Charlotte Despard | |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | The reason for her fact-finding visit in 1921 was that ES
had been asked to be a speaker in a campaign to raise awareness in Britain about the Irish situation, and she felt that she... |
politics | Edith Somerville | Next February she wrote to Ethel Smyth
that the Black and Tans were worse than Sinn Féin
(the Republicans). Smyth, as an Englishwoman, found this hard to believe. When the Republicans took for themselves (virtually... |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Constance, Countess Markievicz,
joined the women's nationalist group Inghinidhe na hEireann
(Daughters of Ireland
), founded by Maud Gonne
in 1900. She joined Sinn Féin
, too, this year. Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora. 61-2, 73 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Constance, Countess Markievicz,
was elected to the executive of Sinn Féin
, newly reorganized by Eamon De Valera
. Coxhead, Elizabeth. Daughters of Erin: Five Women of the Irish Renascence. Secker and Warburg. 102 Marreco, Anne. The Rebel Countess: The Life and Times of Constance Markievicz. Chilton Books. 236 |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Constance, Countess Markievicz,
was arrested along with other Sinn Féin
leaders (including Maud Gonne
) on the pretext of a German Plot, and imprisoned in Holloway Jail
; she was not released until 10 March 1919. Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora. 182, 189 |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Standing from prison for the constituency of St Patrick's, Dublin, Constance, Countess Markievicz,
became the first woman elected to the British Parliament
; but, following Sinn Féin
policy, she did not take her seat at Westminster. Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century. 356 Cook, Chris, and John Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman. 68-9 |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Constance, Countess Markievicz,
resigned as President of Cumann na mBan
(the women's council of the Irish Volunteers
) in order to join Fianna Fail
(Soldiers of Destiny
), a party formed by Eamon De Valera |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | She was also elected to the committee that produced the new Inine journal Bean na h-Eireann (meaning woman of Ireland).She was introduced to the Inine group by Helena Molony
, an activist who met... |
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