New-York tribune., 1922-04-08
Free State Is
Mockery, Says
".Joan of Erin''
Countess Markiewicz, Who
Led 1916 Rioting and
Was Sentenced to Death.
Brings Treaty Fight Here
Demands Real Republic
Declares 90 Per Cent of the
Irish Republican Army
Never Will Sanction Peace

Inc Countess Georgina Markiowicz
one OF the most vivid personalities ir
modern Ireland and the Joan" of the
Irlsh struggle for independence. ar
rived yesterday on her first visit tc
America. pale, fragile woman with
hight fluffy hair and wide blue eyes
obviously one of the soft, sweet, un-
woman who led the wild rioting of
1916, who was condemned to death for
her share in the Easter uprising and
later reprieved to life imprisonment
She has spent the last five years in
and out of prison and is one of the
most unrelenting republican bitter
enders in Ireland to-day
N on cannot imagine that we fought
TOR 700 years. to rest content with
such mockcry as the Irish Free
State she said the blue eyes sud
denly going bright and hard. "Thcrc
IS no Irish Free State. The people of
the IRISH republic have never sane
toned it, The five representatives who
were sent to treat with Lloyd George
were sent to find out what agreement
could be reached between a free Irc-
land and the empire. They were not
sent to sign away the republic"
Leader in Rebel Movement
COUNTESS Marklewlcz is figure to be
reckoned with in Ireland, not alone be-
cause of the white heat of her revolu-
tionary zeal, but because of somethinc
about her that kindles the Imagination
of the people. She is such a personal
ity as the Irish have always had for
their leaders -quixotic and shrewd
mystical and wayward, a woman who
llved romantic, eventful life of exile
before she came back to take part in
her country's affairs.
She is a member of family of
thoroughly Anglicized- Irish gentry.
Parnell, whom she saw when she was
a girl. first awakened her mind to ma
tional ardor. In the land troubles of
her glrlhood, it is said, she urged her
fathers tenants to rebel against him.
where she married Count Casimir
DUNN Markievicz, a Polish artist She
returned. a mature woman, with a
tercer discomfort and disillusionment.
and became one of the leaders in the
growing revolutionary movement.
For Separation From Church
She has been prominent in Sim Fein
from the beginning. She was one of
those who gave the start to its pro
gram of cultural renaissance, a revival
OF the Gaelic language, its economic
scheme of cooperation and it's separa-
tist idea Of Church and State,
"They fear that Ireland will be under
the thumb of the Church if she is
free she said fiercely well, no one
believes more than we in the separa-
ton Of Church and State Where is
there finer example of the evils of
an established state church anyway
than in England" ?" she asked.
She WAS MiOistnr Of -,
government of the Dali Eirann of 1919.
me cooperative scheme was never put
FULLY into operation, due to the dis
orders of the times, but where it was
put into effect it worked wonderfully
we'll. The cooperative creameries and
of tools and the few COOP
eratlve clothing factories we're a huge
success.
She was asked why Ireland did not
adopt the Gandhi program Of non-co
operation.
The Gandhi program Of boycott was
copied from u.s. she said. 81 have not
! stitch on me of anything that was vas
made in England. The blouse | wear
vas made in the White Cross shops |
established with American money. The |
klrt l wear was made in the co-opera-
i've tailoring shop in Abbey Street in
dublin. But the conditions of non
esistance are different in India than
n Ireland. They were not forced as
We were to fight for our lives
She said that 80 per cent of the
army and nearly all the youth of Ire
and are against the Free State and |
ylll give no allegience to it. Robert !
3arton c laims, she says, that he gave
us acquiescense under physical COM
,ulsion; Collins now repudiates it, De
nj C,;f
tands by it.
When asked if the resistance to the
cree State was on economic or on
entlmental grounds, she said:
Complete Freedom Demanded
"lt is not sentimental, our demand
or complete severance. 1t is that a
ountry, if it is to develop itself, with
IS own literature, its own art, it's own
Utilization, its own historical connec-
ion with the past, must be entirely