100 YEARS AGO: Countess Markievicz appointed Minister for Labour

By Joseph E.A. Connell Constance Gore-Booth was born in 1868 to one of the largest landowning families in County Sligo, part of the Anglo-Irish gentry, whose control of the bulk of Irish land was a source of long-standing resentment to the Catholic Irish majority. At eighteen she became a débutante and enjoyed several ‘seasons’ in ... Read more

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