Dr Sonja Tiernan

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218 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 25 Jun

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

And whereas you have Constance basically saying, you know, when they decide in the beginning that they don't want her to marry Casimir Markievicz, she writes them and says, well, that's fine.

I'll go and live on a farm in Poland or I'll go to Russia or, you know.

So she really she takes no nonsense and she she kind of threatens them.

Whereas with Eva, it's very different and she's much more diplomatic.

And we can see it in her letters even to Jocelyn that she ensures that, you know, she gets Jocelyn all riled up to get involved in the campaign against Roger Caseman's death sentence, for example.

So she gets his support on these things.

And in the same way, of course, Jocelyn supports her.

They work together to get the reprieve of Constance.

death sentence as well, which of course is successful.

Unfortunately, Roger Casement's one wasn't successful, but she rose in his help on these things.

So I think certainly the Gore Booths were more concerned about Constance's activities because there was a fear that Lissadell House might be burnt down by the time it gets to the Civil War, all of these things as well.

Whereas Eva's activities weren't hitting them as hard at home.

Yeah, I mean, it is extraordinary.

It puts you to shame to think that she accomplished all that she did in 56 years.

She certainly, she had suffered ill health a lot of her life, but this was more respiratory.

But then it's clear that she got cancer probably about 18 months before she dies.

But herself and Esther decide not to share this with anybody else.

But in the later years of her life, she becomes much more involved in religious study, mystical sciences, all of this kind of aspect.

And her largest and final publication is on a psychological and poetic assessment of the fourth gospel.

And this is actually an extraordinary book because what she's done, we can see this as a precursor to the feminist Bible, essentially.

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