Frontispiece from Esther Roper, The prison letters of Countess Markievicz (Constance Gore-Booth), London, 1934

Constance Markievicz (1868–1927) was a talented artist from an Anglo-Irish family. An ardent republican, she became a lieutenant in the Irish Citizen Army and fought at St Stephen’s Green during the Rising. Markievicz’s death sentence was commuted; she was released from prison in 1917 and went on to become Ireland’s first female minister of parliament (1919–22).