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A pair of steel handcuffs from Lissadell House, stated by Gore-Booth family tradition to have been used on Countess Markievicz. Found
with a collection of her correspondence (not included).
Constance Gore-Booth was transported to Kilmainham Gaol after the Rising where she was only one of seventy women prisoners put
into solitary confinement. She was sentenced to death at her court martial on 4 May 1916, but General Maxwell commuted this to life
in prison on “account of the prisoner’s sex”.
Markievicz was transferred to Mountjoy Prison and then to Aylesbury Prison in England in July 1916. She was released from prison in
1917, along with others involved in the Rising, as the government in London granted a general amnesty for those who had participated
in it.
Provenance: Purchased at HOK & Christie’s Lissadell House Sale, Co. Sligo, November 2003, lot 557 for hammer price of €4,000.
€ 5,000 - 8,000