The Eligibility of Constance Markievicz

On 14th December 1918, Constance Markievicz (1868-1927) became the first woman to be elected to the UK Parliament, but she did not take her seat.
In this video, made with Royal Holloway's History Hub and based on an earlier blog from Dr Mari Takayanagi, Senior Archivist at the Parliamentary Archives, we explore how her election came about and whether she was in fact even eligible to be an MP.
Read Dr Takayanagi's blog on the History of Parliament site here: thehistoryofpa...
Find out more about Markievicz in our earlier RUclips video: • Constance Markievicz: ...
Image credits:
0.36: Constance Markievicz, photo by A. H. Poole, NLI NPA POLF203
1.00: Constance Markievicz in uniform, kneeling against a studio prop holding a gun, studio full-length portrait, Keogh Brothers Ltd., photographers, NLI KE 82
1.26: Constance Markievicz, NLI MS 33 12814 front
1.47: Dublin Bread Company, the remains of the Dublin Bread Company at 6-7 Lower Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street) after the Easter Rising in 1916, NLI KE 115
2.31: Constance Goore Booth and Count Casimir Dunin Markievicz, NLI NPA SHE10
3.35: Constance Markievicz, NLI NPA POLF210
4.09: Daniel O’Connell, Public Domain
5.26: Dáil Éireann meeting in the Mansion House, August, 1921, NLI KE 221
5.45: Constance Markievicz campaigning, NLI KE 139
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[@clemver20]

hello hum... good video

[@ornple]

Please fact check at 1:49. Christopher Poole was second in command at the green, the countess was 3rd. Check the Irish military archives that were published over the last decade.