This article was initially published in The Conversation. The Conversation generously allows republication and WHN Admin. is grateful for the opportunity to reproduce the article below as a post. Author: Marie Coleman Lecturer in Modern Irish History, Queen’s University Belfast…
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Women’s History Month: Constance Markievicz and the Feminist-Republican Dilemma
One of the great ironies of British suffrage history is that the first woman elected to Westminster, Constance Markievicz, was in fact Irish. Markievicz stood as a Sinn Fein candidate for Dublin’s St Patrick’s Division in 1918, winning her seat…