Anne Haverty

Biographer Anne Haverty notes that her conversion harmonise[d] with the quasi-mystical side of her personality and with her love of the natural world. CCM also made the choice to convert for non-spiritual reasons: being...

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'...

CCM was very close to one of her two sisters, Eva Gore-Booth , who became a writer, suffragist, and labour activist. Constance's biographer Anne Haverty describes their relationship as almost symbiotic.

CCM then joined a social circle unlike those she had been part of as a younger woman. She and Casimir lived nearby their close associate Æ (George Russell ), with whom they sometimes exhibited...

It was among her own boys' group that CCM first began to go by the title of Madame rather than Countess. Anne Haverty explains: In eschewing the Mrs of English usage, certain women showed...

Constance was elected president of the association. Biographer Anne Haverty notes that her first speech here (which was her first public address anywhere) showed how capable an agitator she might be: how sure was her...

The anger of Irish writers, JOF argues, can be traced to the years of official censorship in Ireland (1929-67), as well as to the prudent self-censorship which followed. She recalls how in the 1940s a...