Introducing Countess Constance Markievicz née Gore-Booth: Aristocrat and Republican, Socialist and Artist, Feminist and Free Spirit

Abstract

To celebrate the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising, Constance Markievicz. Lettere dal carcere. L’Irlanda verso la libertà was published in Italy, edited by Loredana Salis who also wrote the preliminary essay, the introductions to the various sections and provided chronological references and footnotes; the translation is by Lucia Angelica Salaris, while an afterword focusing on the proto-feminist ideas of the writer of the letters was added by Cristina Nadotti. Linda Hogan, in her essay “Occupying a Precarious Position: Women in Culture and Church in Ireland”, has rightly remarked: