Today in Labor History December 28, 1918: Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected Member of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons. She was an Irish revolutionary, suffragist and socialist, who fought in the Easter Rising in 1916, when Irish republicans attempted to end British rule and establish an Irish Republic. Originally, they had sentenced her to death for her role in the Rising. However, they commuted her sentence to life imprisonment because she was a woman. During the Rising, she designed the Citizen Army uniform, composed its anthem, and fought in St Stephen's Green, where she shot a member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police.

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Constance Georgine Markievicz (née Gore-Booth) was born at Buckingham Gate in London on 4th February 1868, the elder daughter of the Arctic explorer and adventurer Sir Henry Gore-Booth, 5th Baronet, an Anglo-Irish landlord who administered a large estate in Sligo, and Georgina, Lady Gore-Booth, née Hill. 1/2

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Today in Labor History December 28, 1918: Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected Member of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons. She was an Irish revolutionary, suffragist and socialist, who fought in the Easter Rising in 1916, when Irish republicans attempted to end British rule and establish an Irish Republic. Originally, they had sentenced her to death for her role in the Rising. However, they commuted her sentence to life imprisonment because she was a woman. During the Rising, she designed the Citizen Army uniform, composed its anthem, and fought in St Stephen's Green, where she shot a member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police.

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On 28 December 1918 Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.

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On 14th December 1918 the election in Ireland saw Sinn Féin win 73 of the 105 seats contested in the general election in Ireland. Constance Markievicz, then imprisoned in Holloway Prison in England, was the first woman elected to Westminster. Sinn Féin refused to take up their seats in Westminster.

More here:
https://www.rte.ie/eile/election-1918/2018/1211/1016473-election-1918-what-you-need-to-know-about-how-ireland-voted/

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On 2nd April 1919 Constance Markievicz was appointed Minister for Labour in the First Dáil. She became both the first Irish female Cabinet Minister and, at the same time, only the second female government minister in Europe. She was the only female cabinet minister in Irish history until 1979.

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Constance Georgine Markievicz (née Gore-Booth) was born at Buckingham Gate in London on 4th February 1868, the elder daughter of the Arctic explorer and adventurer Sir Henry Gore-Booth, 5th Baronet, an Anglo-Irish landlord who administered a large estate in Sligo, and Georgina, Lady Gore-Booth, née Hill. 1/2

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