#countess markievicz

[thereofrin]

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 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…

[wirekn0t]

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

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

Source

[deadgiants]

A short list of cool motherfuckers

[fantasticwolfpenguin]

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

[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…

[seachranaidhe]

#OTD in 1920 – Countess Markievicz was court-martialed by the British administration.

She had been held in Mountjoy since her arrest at Rathmines on 26th September. The proceedings took place at the Royal Barracks (now Collins Barracks). Her close friends Dr. Kathleen Lynn, Maud Gonne MacBride and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington were permitted to attend but under strict conditions. Markievicz was charged with conspiring to ‘organise and promote’ Fianna…#OTD in 1920 – Countess Markievicz…

[thedepressedpelican]

Eva Gore-Booth (left) and older sister Constance Markievicz

Countess Markievicz - The making of a rebel Countess

[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.

[inky-duchess]

What do you think about as often as men think about the Roman Empire?

That meme is probably dead by now, but I’ve seen you pop off about England’s fuckery and am curious of anything else that gets you so heated

I think about the Roman Empire at least twice a day. Julius Caesar, Livia Drusilla, Cicero, Caligula, Tiberias, Claudius, Augustus, Agrippa, I mean why wouldn't I?

Michael Collins, Countess Markievicz, Roger Casement, really the entire 1916 rising except de Valera who can fuck off and die (yes, I know he's dead but do so again sir)

The Famine

Tutankhamen and his burial chamber.

Cursed jewellery - the Lusitania Tiara, the Hesse Strawberry Leaf Tiara

How Felix Yusopov was simply the GOAT

Dollar Princesses/Cash for Coronets

The Romanovs - suffering from this brain rot since I was 4.

At the moment it's the horrific birth of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the effect it had on him and his mom, Vicky.

[memecucker]

TIL that the first female Member of Parliament in the UK was Constance Markievicz who was a countess born into an upper class family of Protestant Anglo-Irish origin but she never actually sat at Westminster because Markievicz was elected as a member of Sinn Fein and a lifelong supporter of the Irish nationalist movement and supported the anti-Treaty side during the civil war. So like, if the UK doesn’t commemorate her as much as you’d think the first woman elected to parliament would be, I think that’s why

Also

In 1908, Markievicz became actively involved in nationalist politics in Ireland. She joined Sinn Féin and Inghinidhe na hÉireann ('Daughters of Ireland'), a revolutionary women's movement founded by the actress and activist Maud Gonne, muse of WB Yeats. Markievicz came directly to her first meeting from a function at Dublin Castle, the seat of British rule in Ireland, wearing a satin ball gown and a diamond tiara. Naturally, the members looked upon her with some hostility. This refreshing change from being ‘"kowtowed" to’ as a countess only made her more eager to join, she told her friend Helena Molony.

She seems cool

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1971 – Death of Revolutionary, Margaret Skinnider, in Glenageary, Co Dublin.

“Scotland is my home, but Ireland my country.” –Margaret Skinnider Margaret Skinnider’s mother was Scottish and her father was originally 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…

[ceo-draiochta]

Fuck Yeats for bad information, fuck Yeats for being weird af to countess markievicz and her daughter, fuck Yeats for being a massive hypocrite about independence but by god that man could write a poem. The Second Coming?? Sailing to Byzantium? The song of wandering Aengus? The Stolen Child?? The Lake Isle of Inishfree?? All masterpieces. Still think about quotes from these all the time.

[deadgiants]

Remember that time England had to change the law so incarcerated people couldn't be elected to quash the popular voices of the people of Ireland?

No the other time they changed the law so incarcerated people couldn't be elected to quash the popular voices of the people of Ireland.

No, the other time. Yeah, that time. It would be hilarious if it wasn't also extremely fucked.

[streetsofsligo]

"Constance Georgine Markievicz, also known as Countess Markievicz and Madame Markievicz, was an Irish politician, revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, and the first woman elected to the Westminster Parliament."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Markievicz