Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988.
104, 118, 121
politics
Charlotte Despard
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...
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.
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...
Textual Features
Anne Devlin
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Katharine Tynan
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...