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 The Red Countess I cannot visit Dublin without resuming my study of "the Red Countess" Constance Markievicz. During the Easter Rising in 1916 she was second-in-command to Michael Mallin when his unit of the rebel army occupied Saint Stephen's Green. She led the troops holding the building Royal Surgeon's. With her troops, she was able to resist the British Army for six days and Constance Markievicz yielded only when she saw the rebellion leader Pádraic Pearse's undersigned capitulation. She expressed her love to Ireland with the words: "We lived on a beautiful, enchanted West Coast, where we grew up intimate with the soft mists and the coloured mountains." |
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 First published: Friday 20th December, 2002 Send a to the author! You may also use this form |
