Eva Gore Booth, The Other Sister: The Remarkable Sybling of Constance Markievicz by llpix.comMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
A fast read with a unique look into being an Irish suffrage in and around the time of The Troubles. Gore-Booth (22 May 1870 – 30 June 1926) was an Irish poet dramatist, committed suffragist, social worker and labor activist. Part of thee point here is she has been overshadowed by the success of her sister, Countess Markievicz, an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette and socialist. In December 1918, Markievicz was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat and, along with the other Sinn Féin TDs, formed the first Dáil Éireann. She was also one of the first women in the world to hold a cabinet position.
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