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Constance Markievicz: Media

Anglo-Irish countess and political activist

Videos

Hear a discussion on The Death of Fionavar, 1916 play by sisters Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz published during the Rising
A discussion of The Death of Fionavar (1916), a play by Eva Gore-Booth with...
Video: University College Cork, Ireland (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Images

A countess and a revolutionary
In 1908, at age 40, Constance Markievicz embraced the cause of Irish independence,...
Reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland
Constance Markievicz
Constance Gore-Booth was born into the Anglo-Irish aristocracy in 1868 and grew...
Bain News Service/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ggbain-30185)
Freed from prison
A photograph taken on March 15, 1919, the day that Constance Markievicz was released...
Reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland