![Electors of St. Patrick's division. Who is it that claims your vote for the assertion of Ireland's right to complete independence?...Vote for the Countess [Constance Markiewicz]](/IIIF/000270000/000266758/vtls000266758_001.jp2/full/800,/0/default.jpg)
Electors of St. Patrick's division. Who is it that claims your vote for the assertion of Ireland's right to complete independence?...Vote for the Countess [Constance Markiewicz]
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| Summary: | Handbill encouraging people to vote for the Sinn Féin candidate Constance Markiewicz in the 1918 General Election. It gives an account of an "...extract from the Letter of an Irish Priest" who met Countess Markiewicz in Kilmainham Prison during her courtmartial. He gave her rosary beads and she "expressed the greatest pleasure. - We said the Rosary regularly at the College of Surgeons! she said." He remarks upon her "...beautiful character" and that she is "...a woman of great faith and most religious mind. After reading such a testimony by a priest regarding the fitness of Constance de Markievicz to be a representative of St. Patrick's Division when the claim for FREEDOM OF IRELAND is being made before the Council of the Nations of the world, can you hesitate to (in bold) Vote for the Countess". |
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| Language: | English |
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Dublin :
M. Noyk, Solicitor, Election Agent for the Candidate, College Green,
[1918].
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| Notes: | This item is held in the Department of Ephemera. Printed at foot of handbill: "Published by M. Noyk, Solicitor, Election Agent for the Candidate, College Green, Dublin; and Printed by H. & M. Woods, High St., Dublin". Physical description: 1 sheet ; 28.9 x 22.4 cm. more |
As a digital copy of this item is available, the original will not be issued.
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EPH C2 |
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Ephemera |
Reproduction rights owned by National Library of Ireland.
