Eva Gore-Booth

22 May 1870 - 30 June 1926

Standard Name: Gore-Booth, Eva

Birth Name: Eva Selina Gore-Booth

In addition to her intense suffrage and labour activism, EGB wrote poetry, periodical essays, political pamphlets, religious criticism, plays, and an autobiograpical sketch. Her work was admired by her contemporaries Katharine Tynan , Æ (George Russell ), and W. B. Yeats . In 1935, critic Richard Fox wrote that EGB had an assured place in Irish literary history, but in the early twenty-first century all of her texts are out of print. She is now best known as the sister of Irish patriot and feminist Constance Markievicz , and for Yeats 's elegy In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz.

Donoghue, Emma. “’How could I fear and hold thee by the hand?’: The Poetry of Eva Gore-Booth”. Sex, Nation, and Dissent in Irish Writing, edited by Éibhear Walshe and Éibhear Walshe, St Martin’s Press, 1997, pp. 16-42.

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Connections	Author name Sort ascending	Excerpt
Residence	Constance Countess Markievicz	CCM spent much of her childhood at Lissadell. Here, she and her sister Eva claimed a drawing-room, the glory hole, as their own, where they painted and wrote poetry respectively. Constance also developed...
Wealth and Poverty	Constance Countess Markievicz	Despite his title and their family backgrounds, Constance and Casimir were not wealthy. CCM 's father kept to the rule of male inheritance and within that primogeniture: when he died in 1900, he left almost...
politics	Constance Countess Markievicz	CCM was first imprisoned at Kilmainham and Mountjoy prisons in Dublin. As support began to grow for the Easter rebels (many now martyrs to the cause), she was moved to Aylesbury Jail in England...
politics	Constance Countess Markievicz	Having publicly advocated a police boycott in May 1919, CCM was again arrested and sentenced to four months at Cork Jail . She kept in close contact with her sister Eva Gore-Booth , friend and...
Family and Intimate relationships	Constance Countess Markievicz	Near the end of her life, CCM spent more time with her daughter Maeve , who had been brought up by Constance's mother , and with her husband Casimir , who had not shared his...
Textual Production	Constance Countess Markievicz	While CCM 's sister Eva Gore-Booth was a successful poet (as well as a feminist and labour activist), and Constance occasionally experimented with her own poetry. She wrote while in jail, and her poems are...
Textual Production	Constance Countess Markievicz	CCM also illustrated the text for Eva Gore-Booth 's 1916 play, The Death of Fionavar from The Triumph of Maeve. This text received more public attention than most of Gore-Booth's other works, mainly because...
Textual Production	Constance Countess Markievicz	Roper had been the companion of CCM 's late sister Eva Gore-Booth ; both had been very close to Markievicz. The collection included letters written by Markievicz between 1916 and 1926, both inside and outside...
Intertextuality and Influence	Constance Countess Markievicz	CCM appears in many poems by her sister Eva Gore-Booth , especially after the Easter Rising of 1916. Gore-Booth's several poems about the event and about her own and her sister's roles in it include...
politics	Constance Countess Markievicz	With her sisters Eva and Mabel , Constance Gore-Booth (later Markievicz) launched a branch of the Irish Women's Suffrage and Local Government Association ; this was one of the first of such organizations in Ireland. Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988. 40-1 Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press, 1988. 61

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