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Constance Markievicz’s plays and journalistic prose created a dialogue betwixt Irishwomen involved in the nation-building process both past and present. By employing different theatrical and rhetorical strategies, Markievicz revealed an alternative condition and potential for women and for Ireland. Her artistry in all its forms was a means to examine themes of insurgency and political strife as they relate to both Ireland and women’s efforts in Ireland. Markievicz’s reappropriation of memory, folklore, commemoration and the interweaving of Irish history with an imagined past created a revised living history for Ireland and the potential for a new cultural and political memory complete with women’s integral involvement, free from British subjugation.
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Caulfield, M.P. (2014). ‘… Whenever the Tale of ‘98 is Told’: Constance Markievicz, the National Memory and ‘The Women of Ninety-Eight’. In: Collins, C., Caulfield, M.P. (eds) Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362186_6
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