Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz
Constance, Countess Markiewicz, born Constance Georgine Gore-Booth, 4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927), was an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil.
She was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, but she did not take her seat. Instead she and the other Sinn Féin TDs formed the first Dáil Éireann. She is well known for founding Cumann na mBan.
She was also the first woman in Europe to be a cabinet minister, She was Minister of Labour of the Irish Republic between 1919 and 1922.
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Constance Gore-Booth, later known as Constance Markievicz
Markievicz in uniform examining a Colt New Service Model 1909 revolver, posed c.1915
Election victory procession led by Markievicz in County Clare, circa 1918
A 1927 Group shot of founding members of Fianna Fáil, with Markievicz placed front and centre beside leader Éamon de Valera
Markievicz with her daughter and stepson
Sculpture of Markievicz and her cocker spaniel, Poppet, on Townsend Street, Dublin by Elizabeth McLaughlin
A Dublin City Council 1916 Commemorative plaque, unveiled on 15 July 2019, to commemorate Constance Markievicz and the house she lived in from 1912 to 1916
British Army military intelligence file of 1917
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