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| '''Constance Markiewicz''' (4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927), born in [[London]], was perhaps one of the most intellectual of the leaders of the [[Easter Rising]], and has become one of the most revered women in Irish history. She married Count Casimir Markiewicz, a Polish nobleman and joined [[Sinn Féin]] in 1900 but grew weary of [[Arthur Griffith]]s' pacifism. She launched Fianna Eireann in 1909. She became an officer in the [[Irish Citizen's Army]], prompting the resignation of the Socialist playwright [[Seán O Casey]]. She was a prominent rebel in the 1916 [[Easter Rising]] but her death sentence was commuted on account of her sex. She became President of [[Cumann na mBan]] in 1917 and converted to Catholicism. She was elected Sinn Féin MP for St Patrick’s Dublin, 1918, thereby being the first woman to be elected to the [[House of Commons]], but did not take her seat due to the Sinn Féin policy of abstention. She became Minister for Labour in the Cabinet of the first [[Dáil Éireann]] while imprisoned between 1919-21 and became Minister for Labor in the second Dáil. She denounced the [[Anglo-Irish Treaty]] as a capitalist ploy and thus supported the republicans in the [[Irish Civil War]], 1923-4. She then became Sinn Féin abstentionist TD for South Dublin, 1923-7.
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