Sinn Féin

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...

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...