Sinn Féin

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...

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 .

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

The play's title is a near-translation of the phrase Sinn Féin (we ourselves, name of the political party committed to ending British rule in Ireland). AD emphasises the relationship between the political and...

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...

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...