New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 15, 1927, Page 6

BELOVED WOMAN OF IRELAND IS DEAD Counfess Markievicz Passés } Away in London Hospital ; Dublin, July 15 Markievicz, for many vears one of the most remarkable personalities in Irish lite, died early this.morning. Her husband and stepson as well as Eamon De Valera, the republican leader, were at the bedside when she (P—Countess | sentenced to dath, was in connec- | Larkin in 19 c every form of industry in bor in the Dail 1918-] Eireann cabinet, = | Was Friend of Poor The chiet concern of Countess Markievicz as Sinn Fein's woman | leader was in the welfare of Ire- land’s laborers. She vas beloved by |the poorest of Dublin : carn- | ers who felt that in her they had an | uncompromising. friend. Her first entry into public affairs, in the rebellious course of which she several times was jailed and once labor movement. It time when James brought off a long affecting a tion with the was nued strike arly Dublin. ! N wage skilled Larkin demanded a min of pound a week f passed away at Sir Patrick Dunn’s |workers hospital, where she had been tient for some week: The countess, whose tended through years when the Irish fighting for independence went two operations for and a week ago sufl which led to reports she had died. For the part she Easter weck Countess Markic to death, but the s muted to penal was released in 19 rebellious, but « a pa- activities ex- the I€S0c/ATED, PRESS (TIMES WIDE WoRLE ] COUNTESS MARKIEVICZ tivities In the political arena. She 1ook the side of De Valera after the Anglo-Irish treaty creating the Free Btate. She represented one of the Dublin divisions in the Dail Eireann since 1923 and was returned as one of De Valera’s followers in Fianna Fail party at the recent elec- tions. Countess Markievicz, before she was married to the Polish count, Caslir Dunin Markievicz, in 1900, was Constance Georgine Gor Booth. She was the first woman elected to the British parliament, having been returned in 1915 for the St. Patrick’s division of Dublin as a Sinn Feiner, but she did not take |Both could act as well as paint, and | sure against disappointment by us- her seat. She was minister of la- [Constance appeared ‘on the boards|ing Willlams, Root Beer Extract. the | Constance Markievicz threw her- wholeheartedly Larkin for world w mt Markievicz, her 14 or 15 ye r Th 1 in Dublin and wherever| was trouble she was in it. | aster Week Rebellion conspicuous in the re- r week, 1916, when in top boots, breeches, service tunic hered hat, she commanded nt which captured the of Surgeons. Her surender aracteristically dramatic. She shook hands with all her offi- , then kissed her revolver and ded it over to the British com- After court martial, she nced to death, but Sir John com her sentence to for life. In June, 1917, sh unconditionally leased by the British government with the other Sinn Fein prisoners. \ prominent figure in the subse-| Sinn Fein, C son of countess re- { penal servitu the first woman | t in the British | and had she not | | joined the ein members who | | boycotted liament, she, rather| |than Lady Astor, would have been | the first of her sex to be presented as a member of parliament. | Born in 1868 Countess Markievicz was the | daughter of an Anglo-Trish father, | Gore-Booth, fifth baronet Count and of an s born at | the d to a se {house of comm | | | | pically Trish youth of Constance | who became the Coun- was passed a a typi |Gore-Booth tess Markievicz, 'the usual occupations of {family of the territorial |class. She was a keen rider to |hounds and a noted figure in the social life of County Sligo. Her sis- ter, Eva Gore-Booth, who shared her love of nature and of the ten- lants on their father's estate, be- |came a distinguished poet. Constance’s specialty was paint- {ing and she went to Paris to study | rt. In the schools there she met |Count Casimir Dunin Markievicz, a Polish painter, and was married to |him in 1900. They returned to Dub- |1erge organization of Sin Fein Boy levery |was signed, Countess Markievicz, as agita- |, {life hist, {1913 landlord | |of NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1927. of the Galety theater. The chief service of the countess in Ircland was the creation of a Scouts, all carefully drilled and, as they grew up, material for the Sinn Fein volunteers. She was on the left wing of movement and her endorse- ment of the Rus n revolution and openly expressed admiration for the | Reds was at times a source of em- | barrassment to_her leaders. Joined With De Valera When the treaty with England minister of labor in the Dail Eire- nn cabinet, joined with De Valera n opposing it in the Dail and in the country. She had been one of the most active fighters in the uggle with the Black and Tans n she was again jailed by the ritish. In the republican campaign nst the Free State she took a ding part and again went to ail, with her fellow prison- rs in the customary hunger strikes. von for the republicans at the | mentary elections an impor- it in Dublin City, but like alera and the other leaders, ! refused to take her seat in the| Dail. She continued to be one of the most trusted leaders of the Sinn movement and formed a link | n it and the organizations of | led labor. When in 1926 the | ion occurred in the ranks of the republican party and the cor sequent resignation of De Valera, the countess followed her and assisted him tion of the Fianna the new party of republicans willing to en- ter the Dail provided the oath of allegiance to King George was abolished. She took the chair at the | great meeting in the Scala theater | in Dublin at which De Valera an- nounced his future policy, and hs ed him as still president of t Irish republic. Always Was Charming igh all her adventures | Countess Markievicz maintained the | b 6f a lady of position. She had charming manners and an alert and quick intelligence. The fact that in her youth shc had been presented at the court of Queen Victoria was a recollection that did not readily oecur to those who first knew her in her demo- cratic days. Her origin did not es- cape the taunts of the Free Staters and Michael Collins, in the excite- ment of debate, once contrasted the of men of the common people of Ireland like himself with the history of those men and wom- en, more than half English, who had joined the Irish movement. In the great Dublin strike of Countess Markievicz estab- lished kitchens and superintended the women who fed the workers and their families for nine months. 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