Dearest Old Darling: A Monologue drawn on the prison letters of Constance Markievicz

Constance Markievicz, born Constance Gore-Booth, was the first woman to be elected to the House of Commons in December 1918. As a Sinn Fein member, she did not take her seat. She had, of course, played a central role in the Easter Rising of 1916; spared execution because of her sex, she went on to spend five years of her life in prison in Ireland and England. Constance was a highly political person, but in her many letters to her sister Eva Gore-Booth, other, more domestic, even more spiritual, aspects of her personality emerge. The monologue mingles Constances own words with recollections and evocations of her life and times the politics, the arts, theatre, poetry and the Dublin social life that were part of her experiences, as well as her love of nature, animals, gardening, and hunting. See more