 |  | | | Irish women of the 1916 uprising | 20 Apr 2006 | | |
The course of Irish History was irrevocably changed 90 years ago this week with the Easter Uprising in Dublin.
As the poet WB Yeats wrote, a terrible beauty was born when a group of rebels attempted to seize the capital, with the intention of destroying British rule in Ireland .
Among them was Constance, Countess Markievicz, who later became the first woman elected to the House of Commons - though she never took up her seat.
Other less prominent women also took up arms that week, or cooked for the rebels or bandaged the wounded during the battle with the British which followed. Their legacy is being celebrated too this week, as Aideen McLoughlin reports from Dublin. | |
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