On 2 March 1922 Constance Markievicz, by then a strongly anti-Treaty member of the Dáil, addressed her fellow TDs and, in a short but oddly bipartisan speech, urged them to support female ...

In 1900, she married Count Casimir Dunin-Markievicz of Poland and became Countess Markievicz in the process. After moving to Dublin, she became interested in politics, embracing the Irish ...