It was a seat that Constance Markievicz never took - in line ... one a gazelle" She spent her childhood at Lissadell House in County Sligo, but was eager to travel and studied art in London ...

The figure of Constance Markievicz continues to loom large ... much of her childhood was spent in the family home of Lissadell in Sligo, but her attachment was about to grow far more profound.

Constance Gore-Booth was born in 1868 into the Anglo-Irish aristocracy and grew up in Sligo, Ireland. In 1900, she married Count Casimir Dunin-Markievicz of Poland and became Countess Markievicz ...