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Another woman hidden from history
Last month Irish president Michael D Higgins was at the TUC’s Congress House in London to pay tribute to an amazing, but little-known woman. PETER FROST was there.
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Eva Gore-Booth, an Irish aristocrat’s daughter, was born in May 1870 in a huge mansion at Lissadel in beautiful County Sligo. The poet WB Yeats knew her as a young girl and described her as a gazelle.
Her aristocratic upbringing saw her sharing her time between the Irish countryside and her father’s Kensington house where she and her sister Constance attended grand balls and came out as debutantes being presented to Queen Victoria.
So it is hard to believe that in 1913, aged 43, she was working as a pit brow lass at one of the pits of the Lancashire coalfield and organising those women into a trade union. These women did the back-breaking work of sorting the stones out of the coal that had been brought to the surface. They worked long hours for very poor wages.
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