Dail Eireann

Whereas the young in Yeats's poem are held by the sensuous music of physical living and loving (no longer available to the old), JOF writes of Ireland as a country which, generation after generation, has...

Well-known nationalist, feminist, and member of the British parliament Constance, Countess Markievicz, was appointed Labour Minister in the Irish Republic's new government. She was the sole woman cabinet member in the Dail Eireann .

While CCM was imprisoned the Dail was declared illegal and Sinn Féin , Cumann na mBan , and other groups were proscribed. Following her release, she remained head of the Labour ministry and joined her...

CCM was arrested and then jailed from late September 1920 to July 1921. During this time she studied Irish, read, and gardened. She was re-appointed Labour Minister when the second Dail Eireann met in August...

This truce was a step towards the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921 (ratified by the Dail on 7 January 1922), which made southern Ireland a Free State or Dominion with a...

In 1921 she was consumed with distress at the barbaric stupidities and cruelties I saw perpetrated by the Black and Tans and the Auxiliary Division , and concluded that the British terror had failed...

About half of the seventy-three Sinn Fein members who were elected were still imprisoned. Sinn Féin boycotted the House of Commons and formed the republican parliament Dail Eireann in Dublin.

Both de Valera and CCM wished to re-enter the Dail without taking the British Oath of Allegiance, but they now favoured constitutional over martial negotiations. Her last political campaign, which she won easily, was for...