1. What was her family background?

2. How did she come to be known as Countess Markievicz?

3. What were her artistic interests?
4. What was the earliest political cause she became involved in?
5. How did she become involved in nationalism?
6. What did she do to support this cause?
7. What did she do during the Easter Rising?
8. What was she the first woman to do?
9. What role did she have in the Irish War of Independence and the aftermath?
10. What is her legacy today?

1. His father was known in Ireland as a progressive landlord and was also active in politics.
She had a sister called Eva and a mother too.
2. She became known, because she fought for women’s suffrage, campaign against Winston
Churchill, and she took up arms in the bloody April 1916 Easter rising.
3. Her artistic interests were Robert Emmett who led a small group n a failed rebellion, and
mostly things related with Irish rebellion.
4. The earliest political cause she became involved in was, when she joined the she in fein
and Irish Independence Party.
5. She was the first women to be elected to parliament.
6. She served as the minister for labor in the Irish War of Independence,