• Reference code  IE/UCD/SC/GB
• Title Eva Gore-Booth Papers
• Dates  [1916?]
• Level of description Fonds
• Extent 14 items

Creator Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1928)

Biographical History

• Eva Gore-Booth was an Irish poet, dramatist, philosopher, and influential political activist.
• She was born at Lissadell House, County Sligo.
• Eva’s older sister was Constance Gore-Booth, better known as Countess Markievicz.
• In 1886 Ester Roper and Eva Gore-Booth became joint secretaries of the Women’s Textile and Other Workers Representation Committee.
• She was also active in the National Union for Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and wrote propaganda pamphlets and articles in feminist and trade union journals.
• Eva was a keen poet and playwright, with her first published volume of poetry being praised highly by W. B. Yeats. 
• She published ten volumes of poetry and the verse dramas Unseen Kings (1904) and Death of Fionavar (1916).

Source of Acquisition Donated by Liam O’Leary, February 2008.

• Holograph letters from Eva Gore-Booth to Meredith Starr and other correspondents concerning the occult, reincarnation, poetry, German immigration into England, the social situation in Ireland, and visiting her sister, Countess Markievicz, in Dublin [1916?].
• Holograph poems including a poem entitled Roger Casement (not dated).

• Access The materials in this collection are available by appointment only to research students, teaching staff and scholars.
  Research students should have a letter of recommendation from their supervisor.
• Reproduction Photocopying or digital photographing of this material is not permitted.
• Language English.
• Finding Aid n/a.

Find information on Eva Gore-Booth in the Dictionary of Irish Biography (UCD only).