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Constance Markiewicz (centre)
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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn paid tribute to the first woman elected to Parliament on the 100th anniversary of her election.
Constance Markievicz was elected Sinn Fein MP for Dublin St Patrick’s but never took her seat. As an Irish republican she refused to swear an oath of loyalty to the British crown.
The centenary of her election was celebrated outside north London’s Holloway Prison, where she was jailed for anti-conscription activities, last Friday.
The unifying victory of Irish progressive forces in the presidential campaign should be a salutary lesson to the left in this country, argues MARY GRIFFITHS CLARKE
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH
Maggie Bowden was a trailblazing campaigning lawyer at Birnberg and Thompsons, women’s organiser of the Communist Party, and general secretary of Liberation
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’