Constance in the Fianna na hEireann uniform
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Constance Gore-Booth was an Irish politician and revolutionary in the early 1900s. She was born in 1868 and spent most of her childhood in her family home in Lissadell, County Sligo. In 1901 she married a Polish Count and became Countess Constance Markievicz.

She fought for Irish Freedom in the 1916 Easter Rising and later became the only female member of the first Dáil Éireann (Irish parliament) in 1918.

Constance left the Dáil in January 1922 along with Eamon de Valera and others in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty. She fought against the Treaty throughout the Irish Civil War from June 1922 to May 1923. She died at the age of 59, on 15 July 1927, after a short illness, and is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.

You can learn more about Constance in the history section of this site.