Eva Gore-Booth led a rich and active life beyond what might have been expected of her – not because of her gender, or her aristocratic background, but because of her physical frailty and ...

Constance Markievicz, also known as Countess Markievicz, has been solidified as an extremely important figure in Irish history. An Irish revolutionary nationalist politician, suffragist, and socialist ...

The Death of Fionavar was published in late 1916, and is Eva Gore-Booth’s response, through the medium of Irish folklore, to the events of Easter week 1916. The book is dedicated ‘To the Memory of the ...

Eva Gore-Booth, sister of the more famous Constance Markievicz, has not had nearly as much attention as the rebel countess. Of WB Yeats’s “two girls in silk kimonos” at Lissadell House, in Co Sligo, ...

THE first dedicated biography of Eva Gore-booth (1870-1926), Irish poet and radical political activist, who was born in Lissadell House, is being launched in June. Written by Sonja Tiernan, a Lecturer ...

In 1908, the British Liberal Government introduced a Licensing Bill aimed at overhauling licensing arrangements across the UK. At the centre of the legislation was a recommendation to abolish barmaids ...

President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to Irish activist Eva Gore-Booth, the sister of Constance Markievicz, describing her as "a remarkable, indeed quite extraordinary, figure, not just in ...