Eva Gore-Booth is an important Irish woman who is frequently overlooked due to her proximity to her famous sister (Countess Markievicz). Her amazing papers can be perused @PRONI_DFC - I highly recommend it for her many writings and amazing Xmas card to her sister in 1916. https://twitter.com/lorraineelizab6/status/1263772483305472000
So much amazing material in the archive but this is my FAVOURITE quote (including the self-editing) from a lecture Eva gave to the League of Peace and Freedom in 1920. For a pacifist you and can see the influence of her sister's journey on her thinking ...
Lastly, here is the back of the 1916 Christmas card to Con (we used the poem for the opening panel of our 2016 travelling exhibition - created with Fionna Barber, @Ka_ODonnell and @PRONI_DFC - 'Con & Eva'). As you can see, she was also a pretty fantastic artist ...
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