Sinn Féin

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...

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'...

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...

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

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...

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...