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She was also the only woman to serve in the first Dáil Éireann (Irish assembly), in which she acted as minister of labour (1919-22). 2/7

She was born in London. Her Protestant ascendancy family, the Gore-Booths, owned Lissadell, an extensive estate in County Sligo. She was presented at court to Queen Victoria in the monarch’s jubilee year, 1887. 3/7

She set out to be an artist and met her husband, Polish Count Casimir Markievicz, in Paris. At age 40, in 1908, she embraced Irish nationalism, joining the revolutionary women’s group Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Ireland) and Sinn Féin, the revolutionary party. 4/7