Dr Sonja Tiernan

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

A complete edition was published in the 1930s.

And that was the last time that her poetry was published.

So unless people had access to a university library, essentially, they didn't have access to Eva's poetry.

So it was one of the things I was very conscious of.

And after I did the original biography, I did a complete volume of her poetry and compiled it again.

And that was published through Ireland House in 2015.

And it's definitely, we can see that it's taken off a bit again since then, because for the decade of centenaries especially, some of her music was then put to, some of her poetry was put to music and used during those centenary celebrations around the Easter Rising.

So there is, there's a number of people that are taking it up again.

And it's coming across through some young artists, which I think is very exciting.

Yeah, I mean, it's so interesting.

And I think this is probably as well what in the past has confused scholars when they're trying to categorize Eva Gore Booth.

Because while she is a pacifist, she supported the Irish rebellion.

And while she didn't know that the Easter Rising was happening, she didn't know the plans for it.

I mean, of course, the planning of it was so complex that you can imagine she didn't know about the planning of it.

But she was very quick, and as Mary has mentioned as well, to get special permission because of course Ireland was under military law.

People weren't able to travel in and out of Dublin at the time after the Easter Rising.

And she received special permission to come over.

And at the time, what she engaged in was actually quite dangerous.

And as Mary has mentioned, there was a chance that somebody would think she was Constance Markievicz and she might be attacked from the British forces side.

But she uncovered as much detail of that.

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