Constance Markievicz

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Born Constance Georgine Gore-Booth to a wealthy Protestant family, Constance Markievicz made a somewhat surprising transition to become a leader in the Irish Nationalist movement.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from Howstupworks.com.
0:42.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:44.7	I'm Tracy B. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.
0:47.7	So back in 2016, and also as our most recent Saturday classic,
0:51.7	we did an episode on the Easter Rising.
0:54.7	That was an armed rebellion that struck Ireland in 1916.
0:58.7	And in that episode, we made a couple of brief mentions of Constance Marcavich.
1:03.7	And I made an aside that she was one of the most fascinating characters
1:07.7	that I learned about while researching that episode,
1:09.7	and that if I had found out about her earlier,
1:12.7	the episode might have been all about her instead of about the Easter Rising in general.
1:18.7	So she's been on my short list ever since then,
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