Title: Sisters against the empire : Countess Constance Markievicz and Eva Gore-Booth, 1916-1917 /
Authors: Quigley, Patrick,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Gore-Booth, Eva,; Markievicz, Constance de,; Gore-Booth, Eva,; Revolutionaries Ireland Biography; Feminists Ireland Biography; Ireland Politics and government; Ireland History Biography.
Abstract: "April 1916. In London, Eva Gore-Booth is shocked to read a newspaper report that her sister Constance lies dead on a Dublin street. She rushes to Westminster and British Army headquarters and discovers her sister is alive, but condemned to death. Meanwhile, in Kilmainham Gaol Constance hears the firing squads killing her closest friends as she awaits her fate. Sisters against the Empire tells the remarkable story of one of Ireland's most famous families at the time of the Easter Rising and its aftermath. Countess Constance Markievicz, one of the leaders of the Rising, is arrested by the British but, due to her gender, her death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment. Her sister Eva, dismayed at the atmosphere of fear in Dublin, fears that solitary confinement will drive her sister insane. The Gore-Booth family are divided between conflicting loyalties.^
Contents: 'The hour so anxiously awaited' -- Evan and Constance: 'the world's great song' -- The rebellion begins -- 'The Red Angel of the revolution' -- In Kilmainham -- two trials -- 'My sister's dead body' -- Eva and Esther in Dublin -- Sorting out -- 'Paying the price' -- Roger Casement -- Aylesbury: 'It's queer and lonely here' -- September 1916 -- '"life's secret forces' -- Settling accounts -- Christmas 1916: 'What I was born to do' --1917: 'Dim sunshine and pearly waves' -- 'In prison all her life' -- 'Where I would like to be' -- 'the brave soul' -- 'She is the people's countess' -- Aftermath.