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Constance Markievicz
Constance Georgine Markievicz, also known as Countess Markievicz and Madame Markievicz, was an Irish republican politician, suffragist, socialist and labour activist who was the first woman elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Born into the Anglo-Irish ruling-class, Markievicz abandoned her social position in favour of Irish independence and social reform. A founding member of Fianna É…
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culture · Irish revolutionary and suffragist (1868–1927) · politician · suffragette · revolutionary · painter · stage actor · also Constance Markievicz, Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz, Constance Georgine Gore-Booth, Madame de Markievicz, Mme de Markievicz, Constance Georgine Markievicz
Born 4 February 1868 · Died 15 July 1927 · Q195768
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2026· 3 entries
“I went out to fight for Ireland”
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BBC: Andrea Catherwood on Constance Markievicz
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2023· 1 entry
RTE Online: Constance Markievicz becomes first female MP
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2019· 1 entry
A Dublin City Council Commemorative Plaque was unveiled at Markievicz's former home in Dublin, Surrey House on Leinster Road in Rathmines
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2018· 3 entries
Irish Examiner: Person: Constance Markievicz
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Irish Central: Constance Markievicz on O’Connell St for 100 years of women’s vote
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A portrait of Markievicz was donated by the Irish parliament to the British House of Commons to commemorate the Representation of the People Act 1918, under which, some women were allowed the right to vote for the first
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2008· 1 entry
A Ukrainian village of Zhyvotivka, where Constance stayed with the Markievicz family in 1903, opened a room dedicated to the couple with the documents brought from Lissadel
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2004· 1 entry
The Irish Times: Markievicz and Constable Lahiff
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1927· 2 entries
Died 1927-07-15.
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Career landmark: Teachta Dála (1927–1927).
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1926· 2 entries
Chairing the inaugural meeting of the new party in La Scala Theatre
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To become a founding member of Fianna Fáil
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1923· 1 entry
Career landmark: Teachta Dála (1923–1927).
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1921· 1 entry
Career landmark: Teachta Dála (1921–1922).
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1919· 2 entries
Career landmark: Minister for Labour (1919–1922).
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Career landmark: Teachta Dála (1919–1921).
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1918· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the 31st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1918–1922).
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For her part in the supposed German Plot
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1917· 1 entry
Along with others involved in the Rising, as the government in London granted a general amnesty for those who had participated in it
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1916· 1 entry
When Irish republicans attempted to end British rule and establish an Irish Republic
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1913· 2 entries
In 1913, Markievicz's husband moved back to Ukraine and never returned to live in Ireland.
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Markievicz's husband moved back to Ukraine and never returned to live in Ireland
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1911· 1 entry
For speaking at an Irish Republican Brotherhood demonstration attended by 30,000 people, organised to protest against George V's visit to Ireland
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1909· 1 entry
Markievicz founded Fianna Éireann, a nationalist scouting organisation that instructed teenage boys in scouting, in the style of Robert Baden-Powell's then-paramilitary Boy Scouts
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1908· 2 entries
Markievicz became actively involved in nationalist politics in Ireland
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In 1908, Markievicz became actively involved in nationalist politics in Ireland.
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1907· 1 entry
Markievicz rented a cottage in the countryside near Dublin
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1905· 1 entry
Along with artists Sarah Purser, Nathaniel Hone, Walter Osborne and John Butler Yeats, she was instrumental in founding the United Arts Club, which was an attempt to bring together all those in Dublin with an artistic an
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1903· 1 entry
And moved in artistic and literary circles, with Constance gaining a reputation as a landscape painter
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1899· 2 entries
Markievicz was married, though separated, at the time they met; his wife died in 1899 and he and Gore-Booth married in London on 29 September 1900.
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And he and Gore-Booth married in London on 29 September 1900
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1892· 1 entry
Went to study at the Slade School of Art in London, where she lived at the Alexandra House for Art Pupils, Kensington Gore, founded five years before by Sir Francis Cook, a wealthy great-uncle of Maud Gonne
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1882· 1 entry
When she was commissioned to paint their portrait, hosted a regular salon where artists, writers and intellectuals on both sides of the nationalist divide gathered
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1876· 1 entry
Markievicz's father became the 5th Baronet of Artarman and took over the running of the family estate
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1868· 1 entry
Born 1868-02-04.
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