The Lilliput Press is proud to publish a new edition of this illustrated landmark 1988 biography by Anne Haverty of one of the great women of Irish history, and Europe’s first elected female politician. An Aristocrat and republican, socialist and artist, feminist and free spirit, Constance Markievicz, neé Gore-Booth, was a pivotal figure in the revolutionary movement that culminated in the Rising of 1916 and in its long and painful aftermath leading to Irish Independence. She was also the first woman ever elected to Parliament and to hold a Cabinet position. From the privileged nineteenth-century world of her youth at Lissadell in Sligo and an artist's life in Paris to the dramas and disappointments of revolution and politics in Dublin, her compelling story provides an entry to that tumultuous period in Irish history.
