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 ...

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 ...

These women, who had been involved in the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence, included Countess Markievicz, who fought in 1916; Mary MacSwiney, whose brother Terence MacSwiney died on hunger ...