Irish revolution hero set to be first woman to be honored with a statue on Ireland’s most famous street to celebrate the suffragettes on the centenary of women getting the vote. Irish revolution hero ...

Born into privilege but drawn to revolution, Constance Markievicz lived a life of striking contradictions. The daughter of a wealthy Anglo-Irish family, she turned her back on societal expectations to ...

It sounded absurd: traveling to Ireland to learn about the owner of a desk. But this wasn’t any ordinary desk — or any ordinary owner. I collect rare books on early America. It’s a hobby propelled by ...

Constance Markievicz, also known as Countess Markievicz, has been solidified as an extremely important figure in Irish history. An Irish revolutionary nationalist politician, suffragist, and socialist ...

The figure of Constance Markievicz continues to loom large – particularly in Ireland (Picture: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images) If you wander the halls of the Houses of Parliament, you’ll see a ...

On 2 March 1922 Constance Markievicz, by then a strongly anti-Treaty member of the Dáil, addressed her fellow TDs and, in a short but oddly bipartisan speech, urged them to support female suffrage in ...