Constance Markievicz

thumb|Countess Markiewicz Constance Georgine Markievicz (née Gore-Booth; 4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927), 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, and was elected Minister for Labour in the First Dáil, becoming the first female cabinet minister in Europe. She served as a Teachta Dála for the Dublin South constituency from 1921 to 1922 and 1923 to 1927. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Dublin St Patrick's from 1918 to 1922. A founding member of Fianna Éireann, Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army, she took part in the Easter Rising in 1916, when Irish republicans attempted to end British rule and establish an Irish Republic. She was sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment on the grounds of her sex. On 28 December 1918, she was the first woman elected to the UK House of Commons, though, being in Holloway Prison at the time and in accordance with party policy, she did not take her seat. Instead, she and the other Sinn Féin MPs (as TDs) formed the first Dáil Éireann. She was also one of the first women in the world to hold a cabinet position, as Minister for Labour, from 1919 to 1922. Quotes Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver. Mullaly Una 11 March 2017 A history of Ireland in 100 great quotes 30 December 2022 https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/a-history-of-ireland-in-100-great-quotes-1.2994069 The Irish Times This is the context of the upcoming Irish rebellion against English rule. Quotes about Markievicz She was like an extinct volcano, her former violent self burnt out ... What she had fought for had not really come into being; maybe nothing on earth could have brought it into being, so romantic and heroic was it. Mary Colum, Irish author and literary critic, on seeing her old friend shortly before Markievicz died (via Markievicz: A Most Outrageous Rebel by Lindie Naughton) ...condemned to death, Pardoned, drags out lonely years Conspiring among the ignorant. W.B. Yeats, "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz" (1927) Works by Markievicz Q115943449 Armed for the battle, kneel we before thee / Bless Thou our banners, God of the Brave Q115941703 100 Words by Markievicz and score by Crofts of a hymn composed in or before 1917. External links Category:1868 births Category:1927 deaths Category:Women politicians in Ireland Category:Women politicians in the United Kingdom Category:Revolutionaries Category:Irish nationalists Category:Women's rights activists Category:Women activists from the United Kingdom Category:Socialists from Ireland Category:Labor ministers Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom Category:Feminists from the United Kingdom Category:Catholics from Ireland Category:Politicians from London Category:Women born in the 19th century