Volume 10, Number 4 · February 29, 1968
Countess for a Democratic Society
By Robert Kee
Constance De Markievicz: In the Cause of Ireland
by Jacqueline Van Voris
University of Massachusetts, 384 pp., $7.50
The Rebel Countess: The Life and Times of Constance Markievicz
by Anne Marreco
Chilton Books, 330 pp., $6.95
The historic cause of 'Ireland' is, in the popular mind, so legendary and heroic that it sometimes seems a come-down to look at its heroes and heroines. Not that they lack heroic qualities, but they are almost all oddities—cranks, even—and such a simple cause would seem to demand more straightforward protagonists.
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