Sinn Féin

CD 's younger brother, later Sir John French , had a high-profile military career. He became a Field Marshal in 1913 and commander of the British Expeditionary Force in Europe at the start of the...

ENC 's father, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, was born in about 1903 and lived until 1970.

EGB 's elder sister Constance (later Countess Markievicz ) was an Irish patriot and the first woman MP in Britain (though as a member of Sinn Féin she did not take her seat). The sisters'...

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...

CD resigned from Sinn Fein .

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...

After moving to Ireland, CD campaigned strongly for Sinn Fein , well into her old age though not until the end of her life. At Roebuck House she was watched by a plain-clothes detective working...

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...

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...

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.

Constance, Countess Markievicz, was elected to the executive of Sinn Féin , newly reorganized by Eamon De Valera .

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.

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.

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

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...