{"id":1895,"date":"2017-02-10T11:01:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T11:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2017-02-10T11:01:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T11:01:38","slug":"on-opposite-sides-constance-casimir-markievicz-in-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/events\/on-opposite-sides-constance-casimir-markievicz-in-1917\/","title":{"rendered":"On Opposite Sides: Constance &#038; Casimir Markievicz in 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IPS_Evbte_CCMarkieviczPOSTER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IPS_Evbte_CCMarkieviczPOSTER-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1896\" srcset=\"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IPS_Evbte_CCMarkieviczPOSTER-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IPS_Evbte_CCMarkieviczPOSTER-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IPS_Evbte_CCMarkieviczPOSTER-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On Sunday, 19th February at 4:30pm (Polish House) The Irish Polish Society invites you to the lecture with slides \u2018On Opposite Sides: Constance &#038; Casimir Markievicz in 1917\u2019 by Patrick Quigley.<\/p>\n<p>The year 1917 opened with the Markievicz couple divided by a continent at war. The 1916 Rising had been crushed and Constance was adjusting to life in Aylesbury Women&#8217;s Prison. Her health deteriorated while her family debated whether they should campaign for better conditions. Casimir was recovering from his war injuries and painting and working with Polish theatre in Kiev. Around the same time Constance discovered art and poetry could help raise her spirits in the dark winter days. And then the Russian Revolution changed everything&#8230;<br \/>\nAdmission free \u2013 all welcome!<\/p>\n<p>To register your free seat, please click below:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ie\/e\/on-opposite-sides-constance-casimir-markievicz-in-1917-tickets-31933904167\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ie\/e\/on-opposite-sides-constance-casimir-markievicz-in-1917-tickets-31933904167<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patrick Quigley is the author of \u2018Sisters Against the Empire: Countess Markievicz &amp; Eva Gore-Booth in 1916-17\u2019 and \u2018The Polish Irishman: the life and times of Casimir Markievicz\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, 19th February at 4:30pm (Polish House) The Irish Polish Society invites you to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}