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Was it not strange that by the tideless sea
The jar and hurry of our lives should cease
That under olive boughs we found our peace
And all the world's great song in Italy?

Eva Gore-Booth to her life companion Esther Roper
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#CountessMarkievicz

Her Life, The Lissadell Press

Feast of the Epiphany

#Epiphany2022
#WBYeats

William Butler Yeats

Lissadell collection
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The Lissadell Press

#CountessMarkievicz

#CountessMarkievicz risked her life for Ireland's freedom, became the first woman elected to Westminster Parliament, and Dáil Éireann, and the first woman Minister in a modern western European democracy.

Her husband Casimir telegraphed news of her death to Lissadell

'Life that is Love is God'

This quote from the poet Sappho is etched on the gravestone of Eva Gore-Booth, poet, suffragist, pacifist, who died on this day 95 years ago

Eva is buried with her life companion, Esther Roper, in Hampstead in London

Eva was born in Lissadell in 1870

Was it not strange that by the tideless sea
The jar and hurry of our lives should cease?
That under olive boughs we found our peace
And all the world's great song in Italy?
You whose Love's melody makes glad the gloom

Eva Gore-Booth to Esther Roper

#pride
#WildAtlanticWay

Born at Lissadell on this day in 1870, Eva Selina Gore-Booth

Poet, suffragist, lifelong campaigner for the improvement of conditions for working women

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