The Death of Fionavar was published in late 1916, and is Eva Gore-Booth’s response, through the medium of Irish folklore, to the events of Easter week 1916. The book is dedicated ‘To the ...
Eva Gore-Booth, an Irish aristocrat’s daughter, was born in May 1870 in a huge mansion at Lissadel in beautiful County Sligo. The poet WB Yeats knew her as a young girl and described her as a gazelle.
Around three-quarters of blue plaque nominations are turned down by English Heritage, it has emerged. Oscar-winning Hollywood actor Ronald Colman, women's rights campaigner Eva Gore-Booth and ...
Sound of military gunfire with commentary in the background. An unknown woman reads a poem by Eva Gore Booth. An unidentified speaker introduces an item on the history of Breffni, County Cavan.