Product Description
''Prison Letters of Countess Markeivicz (Constance Gore-Booth), also Poems and Articles Relating to Easter Week by Eva Gore-Booth, and a Biographical Sketch by Esther Roper, with a Preface by President De Valera, with illustrations'' is the full title. ( President in this context refers to President of Fianna Fáil - this was long before De Valera became Uachtarán)
First Edition - published by Longmans, 1934. First Edition. Pp xviii, 315. In the original green cloth, which is externally heavily worn ( see photos, however, binding is solid, all illustrations present, clean and unmared, apart from date in pen on front endpapers)
An uncommon title
The letters were written by Countess Markievicz to her sister, Eva Gore-Booth, while she was incarcerated between 1916 and 1923. Her correspondence sheds light on pivotal events such as the Easter Rising of 1916, the War of Independence, and the Civil War in Ireland.
Countess Markievicz (née Gore-Booth) was an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician, revolutionary nationalist and suffragette. She was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat and along with the other Sinn Féin TDs formed the first Dáil Éireann. She was also the first woman in Europe to hold a cabinet position (Minister of Labour of the Irish Republic, 1919-1922). She played an active part in the Easter Rising of 1916 and was sentenced to death for her part in the Rising later commuted to life imprisonment on account of her gender.