Win a copy of ‘Markievicz: A Most Outrageous Rebel‘
We have one copy to giveaway of the first Irish-published biography of Countess Markievicz in over twenty years!
Markievicz: An Outrageous Rebel is the first Irish-published biography of Countess Markievicz in over 20 years. Lindie Naughton’s compelling new book sheds fresh light on all facets of Markievicz’s life – her privileged upbringing in County Sligo, her adventures as an art student in London and Paris, her marriage to an improbable Polish count, her political education, her several prison terms, and her emergence as one of the pivotal figures in early 20th-century Ireland. It is a wonderful, new, and very up-to-date account of this extraordinary Irishwoman.
Countess Constance Markievicz – one of the most remarkable women in Irish history – was a revolutionary, a socialist and a feminist, as well as an artist and writer. A natural leader, ‘Madame’, as she was known to thousands of Dubliners, took an active part in the 1916 Rising and was one of the few leaders to escape execution. Instead, she spent an arduous year in an English prison, surrounded by murderers, prostitutes and thieves. Later, during another stretch in prison, she would make history as the first woman elected to the House of Commons.
Constance Markievicz, a woman with a huge heart, battled all her adult life to establish an Irish republic based on co-operation and equality for all. Her message is as relevant today as it was a century ago.
Read Lindie Naughton’s article for The Irish Times:/Constance Markievicz’s prison letters: insights from inside
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Hello, Rebecca, Sorry not to have picked this up earlier, would you like to email the author of this review, or make a comment? Best wishes, Frances for the Editors.