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Article: Countess Courageous.(Constance Gore-Booth de Markievicz )
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- World of Hibernia
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- December 22, 1998
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Katherine Hepburn could have played her with ease. Or just maybe she did. Perhaps it was the feminine force so publicly displayed by the Countess Markievicz that rang so true in the dramatic roles made fashionable by the independent-thinking Hepburn and became, for many modern women, a contemporary archetype.
The defining moment in the life of Constance Gore-Booth de Markievicz occurred on April 24, 1916, when Irish rebels proclaimed a nascent republic and took up arms in what has come to be known as the Easter Rising. On that day in Ireland destiny searched out Con Markievicz, following her lifetime of remarkably inventive political preparation.
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