The Rebel Countess: The Life and Times of Constance Markievicz"Constance Markievicz, born Gore-Booth -- the rebel Countess to the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, 'Madame' to the Dublin poor who loved her -- was one of the most vivid women in the constellation of remarkable men and women who created Ireland's literary and political renaissance in the early years of this century. She is chiefly known to the general public for her part in the Easter Rising of 1916, but how she came to be there is as strange a story as her role in it and what happened to her afterwards. Apart from her political life in an emerging nation, she knew everyone significant in the Ireland of her time and was at the center of events from the first"-- |
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