Famous Irish Woman - Constance Gore-Booth

This week's famous Irish woman is Constance Gore-Booth, the Countess Markievicz.

Constance Gore-Booth, the Countess Markievicz
(4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927)
was an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician, revolutionary nationalist and suffragette. She was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat and along with the other Sinn Féin TDs formed the first Dáil Éireann. She was also the first woman in Europe to hold a cabinet position (Minister of Labour of the Irish Republic, 1919–1922).