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Literary Setting | Julia O'Faolain | Whereas the young in Yeats's poem are held by the sensuous music of physical living and loving (no longer available to the old), JOF
writes of Ireland as a country which, generation after generation, has... |
Occupation | Constance Countess Markievicz | Well-known nationalist, feminist, and member of the British parliament Constance, Countess Markievicz,
was appointed Labour Minister in the Irish Republic's new government. She was the sole woman cabinet member in the Dail Eireann
. Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988. 190 |
Occupation | Constance Countess Markievicz | While CCM
was imprisoned the Dail
was declared illegal and Sinn Féin
, Cumann na mBan
, and other groups were proscribed. Following her release, she remained head of the Labour ministry and joined her... |
Occupation | Constance Countess Markievicz | CCM
was arrested and then jailed from late September 1920 to July 1921. During this time she studied Irish, read, and gardened. She was re-appointed Labour Minister when the second Dail Eireann
met in August... |
politics | Katharine Tynan | This truce was a step towards the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921 (ratified by the Dail
on 7 January 1922), which made southern Ireland a Free State or Dominion with a... |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | In 1921 she was consumed with distress at the barbaric stupidities and cruelties I saw perpetrated Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933. 223 |
politics | Constance Countess Markievicz | About half of the seventy-three Sinn Fein members who were elected were still imprisoned. Sinn Féin
boycotted the House of Commons
and formed the republican parliament Dail Eireann
in Dublin. Marreco, Anne. The Rebel Countess: The Life and Times of Constance Markievicz. Chilton Books, 1967. 243, 245 Coxhead, Elizabeth. Daughters of Erin: Five Women of the Irish Renascence. Secker and Warburg, 1965. 104-5 |
politics | Constance Countess Markievicz |
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