Andrea Catherwood on Constance Markievicz
Great Lives
BBC
4.2 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Constance Markievicz led an amazing life - a leading figure during the Easter Rising of 1916, she was the first woman elected to Parliament though she never took her seat.
Markievicz was born into a wealthy Anglo-Irish family and gained her exotic surname from marriage to a Polish count. She was adventurous, flamboyant, committed to woman's rights, court-martialled and nearly shot.
Nominating her is Andrea Catherwood, ex-ITN correspondent who made her first documentary for BBC Radio 4.
Presented by Matthew Parris.
With Lindie Naughton, author of Markievicz - A Most Outrageous Rebel.
Producer: Miles Warde
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017.
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| 0:31.0 | This is the BBC. I am going to be talking about Constance Markovich who is one of the most |
| 0:39.6 | remarkable women in Irish history, a towering figure in Irish history with pitches, |
| 0:44.2 | swimming pools, roads, civic offices and all sorts named after her in Ireland. |
| 0:48.6 | But she doesn't get the same recognition as she might have done had she been a man because she was |
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