constance markievicz was an irish politician, revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, and socialist. she was the first woman elected to the parliament of the united kingdom and served as minister for labour in the first dáil. she took part in the easter rising and was sentenced to death but her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on the grounds of her sex. markievicz supported the anti-treaty stance in the irish civil war and continued as an (abstentionist) dáil member for sinn féin until 1926 when she became a founding member of fianna fáil.