Markievicz
Subtitle: a most outrageous rebel
By: Lindie Naughton
Publisher: Merrion Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781785370823; 9781785370816; 9781785372216; 9781785370847; 9781785370830
Subjects: Revolutionaries; Biography; Politicians
Description: Countess Constance Markievicz was a revolutionary, a socialist, and a feminist, as well as an artist and writer. A natural leader, 'Madame', as she was known to thousands of Dubliners, took an active part in the 1916 Rising and was one of the few leaders to escape execution. Instead, she spent an arduous year in an English prison, surrounded by murderers, prostitutes, and thieves. Later, during another stretch in prison, she made history as the first woman elected to the House of Commons. Lindie Naughton's compelling biography sheds light on all facets of Markievicz's life-her privileged upbringing in County Sligo, her adventures as an art student in London and Paris, her marriage to an improbable Polish count, her political education, her several prison stretches, and her emergence as one of the pivotal figures in early 20th-century Ireland. Constance Markievicz, a woman with a huge heart, battled all her adult life to establish an Irish republic based on cooperation and equality for all. Her message is as relevant today as it was a century ago. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-305) and index.
Table of contents: title: Alien class, alien race; title: Under Ben Bulben; title: Casi and con; title: The play's the thing; title: Extremists and fire-eaters; title: Na Fianna: scouting for Ireland; title: 'The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland'; title: Locked out; title: Two Cathleen Ni Houlihans; title: 'Ireland is waking'; title: Easter week 1916: year one of Irish history; title: Condemmed to live; title: Sinn Fein: we ourselves; title: Nineteen hundren and nineteen; title: The shadow of a gunman; title: 'I have seen the stars'; title: Anarchy is loosed; title: No enemy but time.