#Markievicz

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Countess Markievicz, her dog 'Poppett', Theobald Wolfe Tone FitzGerald (right) and Thomas McDonald (left), members of Na Fianna Éireann, photographed at Waterford in 1917

[burnitalldownism]

Countess Constance Georgine Markievicz

Founder of Cumann na mBán (the women’s branch of the Irish Citizens Army), she was in command of Stephen’s Green during the 1916 Rising and the only commander not executed by the British army “on account of the prisoner’s sex”, to which she responded “I do wish you lot had the decency to just shoot me.”

First woman elected as a member of the Irish Parliament. First woman elected to the British Parliament. First woman to be made a minister in any European government.

And never sat a day in any of those positions. Pre-Independence Dáil was illegal. As a Republican she refused to take her seat in Westminster. After independence she sided with anti-treaty forces in the civil war. After the civil war she was again elected but died before she could take her seat.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1914 – Cumann na mBan, Irish women’s Republican movement, was founded.

Ní saoirse go saoirse na mban. Over 100 women gathered in Dublin to discuss the role of women in the lead-up to revolution. The meeting, at Wynn’s Hotel, was presided over by Agnes O’Farrelly. The first provisional committee of Cumann na mBan included Agnes MacNeill, Nancy O’Rahilly, Mary Colum, Jenny Wyse Power, Louise Gavan Duffy and Elizabeth Bloxham. They adopted a constitution which stated…

[whats-in-a-sentence]

'Can you cook dinner?' shouted a heckler. 'Yes! Can you drive a coach and four?' replied Constance Markievicz (1868-1927) on her campaign for women's votes driving her carriage with four matched grey horses. The daughter of an Arctic explorer in an Anglo-Irish family, she fought against the British occupation of Ireland and was sentenced to death, though released in 1917 under a general amnesty. Arrested again the following year for protesting conscription in the First World War, she stood for Sinn Féin and took 66 per cent of the vote from prison, and refused to take her seat – then she was in any case, still imprisoned.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[ennarchy]

happy international womens day to constance markievicz and constance markievicz only

[oh2e]

Obsessed with the way that you apparently need ID and proof of address to get a library card in Ireland and yet I a) have not shown either and b) my date of birth is the 1st of January with one card and the 31st of December with my other.

[soulmaking]

William Butler Yeats, from “In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz”

[wirekn0t]

Letter from Constance Markievicz to Madeleine ffrench-Mullen, 12 August 1916

'much love to you & yours & my soldier girls'

Source

[perplexed-confusion]

When Padraig Pearse shares his opinions on Irish freedom he has wisdom and is an inspiration but when EYE Constance Markievicz discuss them I am "shrill" and should have stayed "sweet", "young and beautiful".

[fantasticwolfpenguin]

RIP Countess Markievicz you would have loved "Real Men" by Mitski

[aoawarfare]

Cumann na mBan and the Irish Civil War

Despite the many challenges facing them, women were not passive observers of the Irish War of Independence or the Irish Civil War. Many women joined Cumann na mBan, a nationalist organization that worked closely with Sinn Fein and the IRA to achieve an independent Ireland. Cumann na mBan would be the first organization to reject the treaty and provide the anti-treaty side with its iron and…

[streetsofdublin]

DUBLINBIKES DOCKING STATION 97

Today as an experiment I invited Google Bard to describe Dublinbikes Docking Station at Kinmainham Gaol and here is what I got

ACCORDING TO GOOGLE BARD I asked Google Bard to describe Dublinbikes Docking Station at Kinmainham Gaol and here is what I got: Dublinbikes Docking Station 97 is located at Kilmainham Gaol, a former prison in Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland. The station is located at the corner of Inchicore Road and Kilmainham Lane, just a short walk from the entrance to the gaol. The station has 12 spaces for…

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1892 – Birth of revolutionary and feminist, Margaret Skinnider, in Coatbridge, Scotland. She fought during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.

‘Scotland is my home, but Ireland my country.’ –Margaret Skinnider Margaret Skinnider was born to immigrant parents from Co Monaghan. She became a mathematics teacher in Scotland and was active in the women’s suffrage movement. She also joined the Glasgow branches of the Irish Volunteers and Cumann na mBan in 1914; she also joined the women’s rifle club, becoming a first class shot. She was…

[makingqueerhistory]

Coining the term “Sex is an accident”, Eva Gore-Booth was faced with an uphill climb in her lifetime in the early 20th century. A poet, suffragist, and lifelong activist, her story is sometimes forgotten in the shadow of her more famous sister Countess Markievicz who had many of the same aims of gender and class equality. Eva found her path through her partnership with Esther Roper, her lover and lifelong companion.

[ultrarunnerxxx]

“Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank, and buy a revolver.” —Countess Markievicz (1868 - 1927), Sinn Fein politician, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette and socialist.

[thephoenixandthecrocodile]

I've been very overwhelmed by *everything* happening in the world right now and for some reason I decided the best way to channel my anger and overwhelmness was to draw animals as resistance fighters...as one does?

The first picture is of my dog Lola dressed as Constance Markievicz an Irish rebel because I always imagined Lola was a bit of a bohemian artist, like Constance. Constance was a socialist who served as an officer in the Irish Citizen Army during Easter Rising, was arrested and would have been executed if she hadn’t been a woman. During the Irish War of Independence she was the first women to win parliamentary elections and was the only woman in De Valera’s cabinet. She spend a lot of the war in jail. During the treaty debates, she was vehemently against the treaty and spent a lot of time in jail again, even going on hunger strike. Constance was a badass and someone I really respect. She died before WWII but I’m certain she would have been firmly anti-fascist had she lived.

Then there’s Chip, my dog when I was a kid. He is dressed like Václav Morávek, one of the Three Kings, a famous Czech resistance group. They were famous for two bombings in Berlin against Nazi leaders, including Himmler (who got lucky when his train was delayed-unfortunately) Vaclav died in a gunfighter with the Gestapo

Then there’s Jean the French Resistance badger. He’s actually an old character of mine from my superhero story. I don’t remember why I gave France a badger. I think I thought it was funny to have a character shout “it’s Jean the French Resistance badger!” 

He is dressed like French Resistance Leader Jean Moulin. When the Nazis took over France, he refused to sign a false declaration that three Senegalese soldiers had committed atrocities. He was arrested and tried to kill himself in jail. They released he and he joined the French Resistance. He was betrayed to the Gestapo and died under vicious torture.