#countess markievicz

[politicswasagayerplacein97]

I don’t usually use this blog for Irish politics stuff but I feel like all the British politics nerds on here should probably know about this woman here

Because Countess Markievicz was actually the first woman elected to Westminster, even though she abstained as a protest for Irish independence. After we got independence she also became the first woman to serve as a cabinet minister anywhere in Europe.

So despite being an Irish revolutionary she was actually the first woman MP in the British parliament. Also a suffragist and major funder of charity and the arts. All round very impressive woman.

[burnitalldownism]

Countess Constance Georgine Markievicz

Founder of Cumann na mBán (the women’s branch of the Irish Citizens Army), she was in command of Stephen’s Green during the 1916 Rising and the only commander not executed by the British army “on account of the prisoner’s sex”, to which she responded “I do wish you lot had the decency to just shoot me.”

First woman elected as a member of the Irish Parliament. First woman elected to the British Parliament. First woman to be made a minister in any European government.

And never sat a day in any of those positions. Pre-Independence Dáil was illegal. As a Republican she refused to take her seat in Westminster. After independence she sided with anti-treaty forces in the civil war. After the civil war she was again elected but died before she could take her seat.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1892 – Birth of revolutionary and feminist, Margaret Skinnider, in Coatbridge, Scotland. She fought during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.

‘Scotland is my home, but Ireland my country.’ –Margaret Skinnider Margaret Skinnider was born to immigrant parents from Co Monaghan. She became a mathematics teacher in Scotland and was active in the women’s suffrage movement. She also joined the Glasgow branches of the Irish Volunteers and Cumann na mBan in 1914; she also joined the women’s rifle club, becoming a first class shot. She was…

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Constance Markievicz - Irish politician, revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, the first woman elected to the Westminster Parliament and the first female cabinet minister in Europe, early 1900s. 

[deadgiants]

A short list of cool motherfuckers

[saoirse-eireann]

Constance Georgine Markievicz, née Gore-Booth (1868 – 1927) was an Irish politician, revolutionary, nationalist, suffragette and socialist. [X]

[twostarsinonesphere]

remember that time when constance markievicz was like, "i bet michael collins is having an affair with the english princess" in a newspapers and mick wrote back asking her to stop because his fiancée was upset? and then the countess got on his case even more? yeah i remember that

[writer-artist]

The SEC pulled through with a brief mention of yet another legendary lesbian today on Irish Paper 2 (Eva Gore-Booth) amid the comprehension about good old Constance Markievicz. The only good thing about the entire paper tbh