I decided that Padraig Pearse and Countess Markievicz were wizards. I can't remember why I made that call about Pearse. I picked Countess Markievicz because I found her pretty fascinating. And re-reading her biography, I have to say, she'd have made a heck of a role model for some of our characters. Born super privileged, she married a Polish Count (hence the last name and title) but then joined the Irish revolutionaries. From her wikipedia entry:
>>>In 1909 Markievicz founded Fianna Éireann, a para-military nationalist scouts organisation that instructed teenage boys and girls in the use of firearms. Patrick Pearse said that the creation of Fianna Éireann was as important as the creation of the Irish Volunteers in 1913. [...] She was jailed for the first time in 1911 for speaking at an Irish Republican Brotherhood demonstration attended by 30,000 people, organised to protest against George V's visit to Ireland. During this protest Markievicz handed out leaflets, erected great masts: Dear land thou art not conquered yet., participated in stone-throwing at pictures of the King and Queen and attempted to burn the giant British flag taken from Leinster House, eventually succeeding, but then seeing James McArdle imprisoned for one month for the incident, despite Markievicz testifing in court that she was responsible. Her friend Helena Moloney was arrested for her part in the stone-throwing and became the first woman in Ireland to be tried and imprisoned for a political act since the time of the Ladies Land League.
Markievicz also joined James Connolly's socialist Irish Citizen Army (ICA), a small volunteer force formed in response to the lock-out of 1913, to defend the demonstrating workers from the police. Markievicz recruited volunteers to peel potatoes in a basement while she and others worked on distributing the food. As all the food was paid out of her own pocket, Markievicz was forced to take out many loans, at this time,and sold all her jewellery. That same year, with Inghinidhe na hÉireann, she ran a soup kitchen to feed poor school children.
During the Howth gun-running, on 26 July 1914, when Erskine Childers' yacht Asgard, sailed by Mary Spring Rice, unloaded arms in Howth harbour, it was met by Irish Citizen Army members, led by Markievicz, ready with hand carts and wheelbarrows. Among the organisers were Thomas MacDonagh, Bulmer Hobson, Douglas Hyde and Darrell Figgis.
Fashion advice attributed to her was: "Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank and buy a revolver." <<<
She died in 1927, and thus Pansy Parkinson never got to meet her, which is a tremendous shame.
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>>>In 1909 Markievicz founded Fianna Éireann, a para-military nationalist scouts organisation that instructed teenage boys and girls in the use of firearms. Patrick Pearse said that the creation of Fianna Éireann was as important as the creation of the Irish Volunteers in 1913. [...] She was jailed for the first time in 1911 for speaking at an Irish Republican Brotherhood demonstration attended by 30,000 people, organised to protest against George V's visit to Ireland. During this protest Markievicz handed out leaflets, erected great masts: Dear land thou art not conquered yet., participated in stone-throwing at pictures of the King and Queen and attempted to burn the giant British flag taken from Leinster House, eventually succeeding, but then seeing James McArdle imprisoned for one month for the incident, despite Markievicz testifing in court that she was responsible. Her friend Helena Moloney was arrested for her part in the stone-throwing and became the first woman in Ireland to be tried and imprisoned for a political act since the time of the Ladies Land League.
Markievicz also joined James Connolly's socialist Irish Citizen Army (ICA), a small volunteer force formed in response to the lock-out of 1913, to defend the demonstrating workers from the police. Markievicz recruited volunteers to peel potatoes in a basement while she and others worked on distributing the food. As all the food was paid out of her own pocket, Markievicz was forced to take out many loans, at this time,and sold all her jewellery. That same year, with Inghinidhe na hÉireann, she ran a soup kitchen to feed poor school children.
During the Howth gun-running, on 26 July 1914, when Erskine Childers' yacht Asgard, sailed by Mary Spring Rice, unloaded arms in Howth harbour, it was met by Irish Citizen Army members, led by Markievicz, ready with hand carts and wheelbarrows. Among the organisers were Thomas MacDonagh, Bulmer Hobson, Douglas Hyde and Darrell Figgis.
Fashion advice attributed to her was: "Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank and buy a revolver." <<<
She died in 1927, and thus Pansy Parkinson never got to meet her, which is a tremendous shame.