A series of six programmes 2: Countess Constance Markievicz , Irish nationalist and revolutionary. Born Constance Gore Booth in 1868 she had a conventional and privileged Victorian childhood. She took an active part in the Easter Rising, was condemned to death but was released in a general amnesty in 1917. and became the first woman to be directly elected to the British
Parliament in 1918. She served several prison terms and died in the public ward of a hospital among the poor of Dublin. Presented by Hugh Sykes Researcher MIKE WOOLF
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE (R)