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#OTD in 1918 – Sinn Féin leaders arrested over alleged ‘German plot’.
#OTD in 1918 – Sinn Féin leaders arrested over alleged ‘German plot’.
In a dramatic midnight swoop, police and military authorities arrested leading members of the Sinn Féin movement. Among them were a number of MPs and the party’s president, Éamon de Valera, who was seized at his home in Greystones, Co Wicklow and taken to Kingstown Police Station.
Constance Markievicz was apprehended in Rathmines. Party Secretary, Darrell Figgis, who was seized at his home a…
Constance Markievicz - Irish politician, revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, the first woman elected to the Westminster Parliament and the first female cabinet minister in Europe, early 1900s.
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Born on February 4, 1868 in Westminster Countess Markievicz was an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician, prominent figure in the Irish Revolution, suffragette, revolutionary nationalist and socialist.
