Touchstone Mná100 Podcast Episode 2
Mná100 podcast, Episode Two
Mná100 Podcast, Episode 2.
This episode explores a lesser known aspect of the life of Constance de Markievicz, as an artist, actress, playwright, poet, and lyrist. Her artistic talents are the backdrop to a conversation with 3 of Ireland’s contemporary female artists, whose practice exemplifies those disciplines today. They reflect on Markievicz as a ‘Touchstone’ between our past and present
All three Artists are recipient winners of the Markievicz Bursary Award, in conjunction with the Arts Council; from 2019 Poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin, author of Bloodroot and part of the (S)worn State(s) collaborative poetry project, from 2020, Writer Joanna Walsh whose work is informed by other art forms as demonstrated in her digital novella Seed and from 2021, Actress, Director and Writer Barbara Bergin, whose acting credits include The Van, Intermission, Love is a Drug (which she also co-wrote) and On the Couch (which she also created, directed and co-wrote).
Mná100 is a new online women’s initiative, for the final phase of the Decade of Centenaries Programme and continues the work in highlighting the role of women in the revolutionary period. Visit www.mna100.ie to learn more.
Constance de Markievicz’s Gallery
Touchstone
Touchstone
Mná100 Podcast, Episode two
speaker slide
Annemarie Ní Churreáin
Annemarie Ní Churreáin
Image Courtesy of Rory Conaty
Joanna Walsh
Joanna Walsh
Image Courtesy of the Artist
Barbara Bergin
Barbara Bergin
Image Courtesy of the Artist
Constance Gore Booth and Margaret Althea Gyles, 3 Stanley Studio.
Constance Gore Booth and fellow Artist, Writer and Poet, Margaret Althea Gyles, 3 Stanley Studio.
Courtesy of The Lissadell Collection, The Sterry Album.
Visual art slide
A Life Sketch by Constance Gore Booth. Produced at the Académie Julian.
A Life Sketch. Produced at the Académie Julian.
Courtesy of The Lissadell Collection.
A Life Sketch by Constance Gore Booth. Produced at the Académie Julian
A Life Sketch. Produced at the Académie Julian
Courtesy of The Lissadell Collection
A Life Sketch by Constance Gore Booth. Produced at the Académie Julian
A Life Sketch. Produced at the Académie Julian
Courtesy of The Lissadell Collection
Woman Sitting, Ukraine. Constance de Markievicz
Woman Sitting, Ukraine.
Courtesy of The Lissadell Collection
Nocturnal Raid on an Elderly Couple. Illustration made in Holloway Jail 1919.
Nocturnal Raid on an Elderly Couple. Illustration made in Holloway Jail 1919.
This image is reproduced with the kind permission of the National Museum of Ireland. Ⓒ National Museum of Ireland HE-EW-4908
Visit to a Dublin family during the tuberculosis epidemic in 1924
Visit to a Dublin Family during the Tuberculosis Epidemic in 1924
Courtesy of The National Library of Ireland. PD B116
Old Woman at the side of a Cottage. Watercolour painted in Holloway Jail, July 1919
Old Woman at the Side of a Cottage. Watercolour painted in Holloway Jail, July 1919
This image is reproduced with the kind permission of the National Museum of Ireland. Ⓒ National Museum of Ireland HE-EWP-11-1
Man on horse leading another. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, July 1918.
Man on Horse Leading Another. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, July 1918.
This image is reproduced with the kind permission of the National Museum of Ireland. Ⓒ National Museum of Ireland HE-EWP-11-11
Girl Driving Sheep. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, July 1918.
Girl Driving Sheep. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, July 1918.
This image is reproduced with the kind permission of the National Museum of Ireland. Ⓒ National Museum of Ireland HE-EWP-11-14
The Good Shepherd, oil painting.
The Good Shepherd, Oil Painting.
Courtesy of Kilmainham Gaol Museum/OPW. KMGLM.10VP-5A12-09
Peasant Woman Sewing, Child in Cradle Beside Hearth. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, July 1918.
Peasant Woman Sewing, Child in Cradle Beside Hearth. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, July 1918.
This image is reproduced with the kind permission of the National Museum of Ireland. Ⓒ National Museum of Ireland HE-EWP-11-20
Celtic Design for a Bellows
Celtic Design for a Bellows
Courtesy of Kilmainham Gaol/OPW. KMGLM.16VD-1C41-04
Theater slide
Seymour’s Redemption Programme
Seymour’s Redemption Programme
Programme from the World Premiere of Seymour’s Redemption by Casimir Dunin-Markievicz, presented by the Interdependent Dramatic Company, Abbey Theatre. 9th March 1908
Courtesy of The Abbey Theatre Archives.
Scene from ‘The Memory of the Dead’, preform at The Abbey Theatre.
Scene from ‘The Memory of the Dead’, preform at The Abbey Theatre.
Photographer Henry Roe McMahon. Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland. NPA POLF204
Constance de Markievicz as Joan of Arc, Appears Before an Imprisoned Suffragette.
Constance de Markievicz as Joan of Arc, Appears Before an Imprisoned Suffragette.
Irish Women’s Franchise League’s Daffodil Fete. April 1914, Molesworth Hall, Dublin.
Courtesy of The National Library of Ireland. NPA POLF201
‘Maeve’ Programme
‘Maeve’ Programme
Front and back cover of Maeve by Edward Martyn programme, Presented by Cluithcheoirí na hÉireann, Abbey Theatre, May 1908.
Courtesy of The Abbey Theatre Archives.
Seán Connolly (seated) and Countess Markievicz on stage at the Abbey Theatre during a performance of her husband’s play ‘The Memory of the Dead’
Seán Connolly (seated) and Countess Markievicz on stage at the Abbey Theatre during a performance of her husband’s play ‘The Memory of the Dead’.
Courtesy of The National Library of Ireland. NPA POLF205
Programme Cover and Inside Page from ‘Eleanor’s Enterprise’, Constance de Markievicz as Eleanor Maxwell
Programme Cover and Inside Page from ‘Eleanor’s Enterprise’, Constance de Markievicz as Eleanor Maxwell.
This image is reproduced with the kind permission of the National Museum of Ireland. Ⓒ National Museum of Ireland HE-EWL-128-13-001, HE-EWL-128-13-002
Constance de Markievicz’s Notebook with rough draft of 1798 play.
Constance de Markievicz’s Notebook with rough draft of 1798 play.
This image is reproduced with the kind permission of the National Museum of Ireland. Ⓒ National Museum of Ireland HE-EW-919-M
Poetry Slide
Untitled Poem
Untitled Poem
This image is reproduced with the kind permission of the National Museum of Ireland. Ⓒ National Museum of Ireland HE-EW-1327
Stenciled Copy of page with image of Madonna, 1922
Stenciled Copy of page with image of Madonna, 1922.
This image is reproduced with the kind permission of the National Museum of Ireland. Ⓒ National Museum of Ireland HE-EWL-301-B
Lyricist
‘A Battle Hymn’ Cover, Dedicated to the ICA. Words by Constance de Markievicz
‘A Battle Hymn’ Cover, Dedicated to the ICA. Words by Constance de Markievicz.
Courtesy of The Kilmainham Gaol Museum/OPW. KMGLM.18MU-1C14-29a
‘A Battle Hymn’ Sheet Music, Dedicated to the ICA. Words by Constance de Markievicz
‘A Battle Hymn’ Sheet Music, Dedicated to the ICA. Words by Constance de Markievicz.
Courtesy of The Kilmainham Gaol Museum/OPW. KGMLM.18MU-1C14-29b
