Tag Archives | women’s suffrage

Markievicz for Beginners (non-Irish!)

By on March 28, 2018 in Articles

Spent a couple of hours as part of a panel discussion  on the BBC World Service’s The Forum  on Votes for Women and early parliamentarians, with Bridget Kendall asking the questions. Also speaking were Jad Adams and Dr Nikita Sud, who outlined the history of women’s suffrage in general (Jad) and in India (Nikita). My […]

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Women’s Suffrage Centenary: British Suffragettes Jailed in Dublin

By on February 6, 2018 in Articles

When the British prime minster Asquith visited Dublin on 18 July 1912, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and other members of the Irish Women’s Franchise League paraded with posters. Asquith, who was dependent on the vote of the Irish Parliamentary Party to keep him in power, was an opponent of the franchise for women, as indeed were […]

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‘Markievicz: Prison Letters and Rebel Writings’

By on April 3, 2013 in Markievicz

On Sunday December 28, the Irish rebel Constance Markievicz, then interned at Holloway Prison in London, received the news that she had been elected as a Sinn Féin MP to the House of Commons – the first woman ever so elected. To  celebrate, a new Merrion Press edition of her prison (and other) letters, first […]

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