Dr Mary McAuliffe

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Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan · Eva Gore-Booth · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

And particularly because, you know, what the Belgians under their king were doing in the Congo.

So this is very much an anti-imperial thing.

And she fits into that turn against empire that was really happening in the early 20th century as well.

And that humanitarian idea of the...

oppression of empire on native peoples, indigenous peoples, what was happening in Ireland in terms of the native Irish people and the decline in our own language.

She was very much part of the cultural nationalist movement and retrieving mythological stories and folklore and published on that.

So I would see her nationalism, her nationalism if we want to equate it with Ireland, as more broadly anti-imperialism than a very narrow nationalism that some perhaps of the revolutionaries in Ireland espoused.

Yes, I think very much through the work of Sonia and republishing her biography and with people then realising that Countess Markievicz had an extraordinary younger sister who had done so much

in terms of activism, in terms of writing, in terms of publication, but also in terms of her relationship with Esther Roper, who of herself was also a very impressive woman, an activist and campaigner.

But as I said, their relationship with each other is what drove their relationship.

And she is being reclaimed, for example, in the National Gallery exhibition

There a couple of years ago, they had the LGBTQI tour.

They talked about Eva and they talked about her work.

And you can, you know, on the self-guided tour, they will mention the literary and poetic work of Eva Gore Booth.

I think because of the republication of her poetry, people are re-engaging with it.

And you can see more scholarly work is coming out about her literary work.

And seeing her as a major literary figure in the Irish cultural and nationalist broad arena.

And I would imagine people will start engaging with her plays as well.

And as Sonia mentioned, her extraordinary writing on the Gospel of St.

John and her theosophic work.

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