A revised edition of this landmark 1988 illustrated biography of one of the great women of Irish history, and Europe's first elected female politician.

Aristocrat and republican, socialist and artist, feminist and free spirit, Constance Markievicz née Gore-Booth was a pivotal figure in the revolutionary movement that culminated in the Rising of 1916, and in its long and painful aftermath leading to Irish Independence. She was also the first woman ever elected to Parliament and to hold a Cabinet position. From the privileged nineteenth-century world of her youth at Lissadell in Sligo and an artist's life in Paris, to the dramas and disappoint-ments of revolution and politics in Dublin, her compelling story provides an entrée to that tumultuous period in Irish history.