STATUE OF COUNTESS MARKIEVICZ

STATUE OF COUNTESS MARKIEVICZ AND HER DOG POPPET

O'CONNELL MONUMENT IRISH VOLUNTEERS MONUMENT GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE JIM LARKIN STATUE VERONICA GUERIN MEMORIAL MONUMENTS GARDA MEMORIAL GARDEN AT DUBLIN CASTLE CONSTABLE PATRICK SHEAHAN MEMORIAL KING GEORGE IV MEMORIAL STATUE OF COUNTESS MARKIEVICZ CHARLES STEWART PARNELL WELLINGTON MONUMENT IN PHOENIX PARK DUBLIN DIED AS THE RESULT OF ONE OF THE FIRST CAR ACCIDENTS PIANO MONUMENT MARINE TERRACE SPANISH CIVIL WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUES AT LIBERTY HALL HANLON'S CORNER DESTROVED IN AN EXPLOSION IRISH AMERICAN SCULPTOR 1874 - 1943 TALLEST STONE OBELISK IN EUROPE SEAN HEUSTON BY LAURENCE CAMPBELL 1916 MEMORIAL TREE IN MAYNOOTH GHOSTBIKE MEMORIAL AT CLANBRASSIL BRIDGE IN MEMORY OF DICKIE BIRD - A HORSE THAT SERVED THE CRIMEAN WAR STATUE OF LORD ARDILAUN IN ST STEPHEN'S GREEN WOFE TONE MONUMENT IN ST STEPHEN'S GREEN FAMINE MEMORIAL BY EDWARD DELANEY THE EARL OF CARLISLE - THERE WAS A STATUE HERE UNTIL JULY 1958 IRISH NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL GARDENS ISLAND BRIDGE DUBLIN HENRY GRATTAN IN MERRION SQUARE PARK - BY PETER GRANT GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Æ IN MERRION SQUARE PARK THE VERONICA GUERIN MEMORIAL BUST AT DUBLIN CASTLE ÉIRE 1798 MEMORIAL St. MICHAN'S PARK MEMORIAL PLAQUE AR THE RORY O'MORE BRIDGE WILLIAM CONYNGHAM - ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN THOMAS DAVIS STATUE AND FOUNTAIN BY EDWARD DELANEY - NO WATER TO BE SEEN CHURCH STREET DISASTER MEMORIAL - FATHER MATTHEW SQUARE ON CHURCH STREET WATER SUPPLY HAS BEEN RESTORED - THOMAS DAVIS MONUMENT DR ISAAC USHER MONUMENT - THE DOCTOR WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE IN IRELAND TO DIE IN A CAR ACCIDENT MEMORIAL - FATHER MATHEW SQUARE THE COOMBE MEMORIAL - THE DUBLIN LIBERTIES SHEEHAN MEMORIAL ON HAWKINS STREET MEMORIAL FOR PAUL - ZU ZHANG WONG HE MADE THE FIRST HOT AIR BALLOON FLIGHT IN IRELAND FROM RANELAGH - MEMORIAL TO RICHARD CROSBIE
This statue by Elizabeth McLaughlin is located on Townsend street in Dublin and it is claimed by many that it does not in anyway bear any resemblance to the countess.

The dog's name is Poppet and according to some accounts it was not much liked by those who knew it. Sean O’Faoláin wrote of the dog as follows: " Madame had a dog, Poppet, which some of them disliked intensely and regarded only as an ould dog you’d love to root, and behind her back Poppet did get an occasional root."

Constance Georgine Markievicz, known as Countess Markievicz was an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette and socialist. A founder member of Fianna Éireann, Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army, she took part in the Easter Rising in 1916, when Irish republicans attempted to end British rule and establish an Irish Republic.

She was sentenced to death but this was reduced on the grounds of her gender. On 28 December 1918, she was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat and, along with the other Sinn Féin TDs, formed the first Dáil Éireann. She was also the first woman in the world to hold a cabinet position (Minister for Labour of the Irish Republic, 1919–1922).
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