Later commentators, however, have argued that CCM
was intensely devoted to her work. They have also suggested that O'Casey wrote bitterly about Markievicz because he resented her class background, citing the fact that in mid-1914...
politics
Katharine Tynan
KT
witnessed the rioting and looting of the Dublin Easter rebellion (when the Irish Volunteers
and the Irish Citizen Army
took over the city); she had gone to Dublin with a priest to visit another...
politics
Dora Sigerson
Greatly moved by the Easter Rising of 1916 and the executions which followed it, DS
created a sculpture in memory of the events of the Rising; the sculpture now stands in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin...
politics
Constance Countess Markievicz
Constance, Countess Markievicz,
was elected one of two treasurers of the Irish Citizen Army
(ICA
), a militant nationalist and labour group which emerged after the Lock-Out Strike which began in Dublin on 21 August 1913.
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988.
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14 August 1912: Three English suffragettes jailed for the...
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14 August 1912
Three English suffragettes jailed for the Asquith
incident in Dublin started a hunger strike, demanding recognition as political prisoners; four Irish suffragettes joined the hunger strike next day.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
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19 November 1913: James Connolly founded the Irish Citizen...