Word: countess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maxim of the COUNTESS MARKIEVICZ
When Constance Georgine, Countess of Markievicz, died in Dublin last week, there were some few persons who experienced relief but many who were...
...guards of the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin resisted the entrance of a mob led by the Countess Markievicz. She opened her purse, drew out a pistol, shot the guard dead, and continued to lead a faction of the great Republican demonstration staged in Dublin throughout the notorious "Black Easter Week...
...murderess, the Countess was sentenced to life imprisonment. One year later she was released, and in the succeeding year (1918) she was elected a member of the British Parliament. At that time she launched and tirelessly repeated her maxim concerning Mr. Lloyd George (see above), whom she blamed for his opposition to the project of creating Ireland a Republic...
After the establishment of the Irish Free State (1922), Countess Markievicz took up another maxim: "The Irish Free State is not Irish, is not Free, and is not a State." Small ingenuity is needed to support this very logical thesis, and the Countess gave to it all her great energies, demanding that a true "Irish Republic" be established, "instead of our present mongrel specimen of a 'Dominion...