Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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politics | Constance Countess Markievicz | The journal, which was the first women's newspaper in Ireland, issued its first number this November, though CCM
did not begin to publish articles in it until March 1909. Other contributors included Katharine Tynan
,... |
politics | Constance Countess Markievicz | CCM
held training camps for the boys (initially at her home) at which, with Helena Molony
and others, she gave them lessons in Gaelic, drills, and firearm handling. The new group was criticized by Arthur Griffith |
politics | Maud Gonne | In the long, agonising, and ultimately successful struggle for independence MG
was again strenuously active in Ireland. She supported political prisoners and those condemned to execution, and worked with Charlotte Despard
for the Irish White Cross |
politics | Constance Countess Markievicz | She soon began to associate with activists Arthur Griffith
, Bulmer Hobson
, Eoin MacNeill
, and Patrick Pearse
, who were then members of such groups as the Irish Republican Brotherhood
(IRB
). Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988. 66-9 |
Reception | John Millington Synge | Maud Gonne
, Arthur Griffith
, and other nationalists demonstrated against the play, whose picture of Irish life they found unacceptable. They attributed its negative tone to the insidious and destructive tyranny of foreign influence. qtd. in McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/. under Gonne |
Textual Production | Maud Gonne | William Rooney
and Arthur Griffith
(who later that year joined MG
in founding the Transvaal Committee
) launched an Irish nationalist weekly, the United Irishman. In this they had financial backing from Gonne, who... |