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Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1921, Page 5

Countess Markiewiez, who is Ministeq of Labor in Dail Eireann, according td a cable message received'this week, wM born Constance Eva Gore-Booth, daughter of an Irish baronet. She early showed symptoms of an artistic and eccentric temperament, and bade farewell to conventional existence. As an art student in the Quartier Latin in Paris she met a Russian-Polish count, “very poor and very shy.” They married. and. started portrait painting in Dublin, until the countess chanced to read a history of Ireland, and got in tow with the Irish intellectuals, who had discovered the Irish language. A course in the use of firearms followed as a natural sequence, and with her own hand the countess in 1916 shot a sentry at Dublin Castle, and dramatically kissed her pistol farewell on arrest. She herself also drilled and armed the FianxiOi a sort of hoy sooul corps out of which the so-called Irish Republican Army grew. The unusdally dry winter mean-i you’ll surely need Garden early thia reason. North British Rubber Hose do«» not kink*, cutlasts all ojhars