| Lissadell is famous as the childhood home of Constance Markievicz, her sister Eva Gore Booth and her brother Josslyn Gore Booth. Constance was one of the leaders of the 1916 Rising, and was the first woman to be elected to Dail Eireann,where she served as Minister for Labour (thus becoming the first woman minister in a modern European democracy), and Sligo born poet W. B. Yeats was friendly with the Gore Booth sisters when he and they were young. |
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He stayed at Lissadell in 1893 and 1894, and immortalised Lissadell and the Gore Booth sisters in his poetry.was also the first woman to be elected to the House of Commons at Westminster, London (where she declined to take her seat). Eva was a poet of distinction and an active suffragist. Josslyn created at Lissadell one of the premier horticultural estates in Europe. This horticultural enterprise is now being recreated at Lissadell. |
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