The Rebel Countess in Carrick-on-Suir 'I gCuis na h'Eireann' Na Fianna Eireann. Markievicz (Constance Countess). A contemporary manuscript copy of an Address presented to Countess Markievicz by...

The Rebel Countess in Carrick-on-Suir 'I gCuis na h'Eireann' Na Fianna Eireann. Markievicz (Constance Countess). A contemporary manuscript copy of an Address presented to Countess Markievicz by the members of the Con Colbert Branch of Na Fianna Eireann during her visit to Carrick-on-Suir, November 4th, 1917, 2pp (single folio sheet); with an original A.L.s. from the Countess confirming the arrangements for her visit, 1pp., undated, from her Leinster Rd. address in Dublin, clearly signed 'I gCuis na hEireann [in the cause of Ireland], Constance de Markievicz I.R.A.,' a bold signature. The address is a splendid document, recalling how 'in your young days you cut yourself adrift from your ascendant family and threw off the robes of English bureaucracy and wrapped yourself in the flag of Irish patriotism ... and ultimately when Ireland was becoming more English than the English themselves, you went and set aside all the pleasure of your civil life and joined tenaciously with your comrades that were murdered in the fray, handled your sword, your rifle, your men and brought them face to face with the English troops....,' over the names of Sean O'Keeffe, President; Sean Loughman, Captain; Seamus Usal Babinton Hon. Sec. The address with some fold marks, and frayed edges, and one small perforation (possibly from a cigarette), with insignificant loss. Together with a few press cuttings relating to the visit and presentation. As m/ss., w.a.f. Provenance: The family of the late Seamus Babington

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