Eva Gore-booth
Who is Eva Gore-booth
Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth (22 May 1870 – 30 June 1926) was an Irish poet, theologian, and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist. She was born at Lissadell House, County Sligo, the younger sister of Constance Gore-Booth, later known as the Countess Markievicz.
Family background and early life
Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth was born in County Sligo, Ireland, to Sir Henry and Lady Georgina Gore-Booth of Lissadell. She was the third of five children born to the 5th Baronet and his wife and the first of her siblings to be born at Lissadell House. She and her siblings, Josslyn Gore-Booth (1869–1944), Constance Georgine Gore-Booth (1868–1927), Mabel Gore-Booth (1874–1955), and Mordaunt Gore-Booth (1878–1958), were the third gene...
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Eva Gore-booth Poems
- The Little Waves Of Breffny
The grand road from the mountain goes shining to the sea,
And there is traffic in it and many a horse and cart,
But the little roads of Cloonagh are dearer far to me,
And the little roads of Cloonagh go rambling through my heart....
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- Johnsimkin: although she came from a wealthy background eva gore booth dedicated her life to trying to help working-class women and helped them form trade unions.
- Johnsimkin: eva gore booth was a socialist suffragist who before the first world war campaigned for equal pay. most middle-class suffragettes did not concern themselves with these issues.
- Johnsimkin: gore booth eva devoted herself to trade unionism and women's suffrage, but later became involved in adult education for women and working with the manchester university settlement.
- Johnsimkin: in 1903 eva gore booth and esther roper established the lancashire and cheshire women's textile and other workers representation committee. that year they also they organized a suffrage petition with 30,000 signatures.
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