ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how revolutionary nationalist women have been remembered through two case studies of individual female activists: Constance Markievicz in Ireland and Qiu Jin in China. It looks at how revolutionary men in the Irish Free State and later the Irish Republic represented their revolutionary sister in their speeches, memoirs, and biographies. The chapter considers whether acts of remembering female militant nationalism have manifested themselves differently in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It also looks at female militant nationalist who was likewise remembered in complex ways. Markievicz was the first leading figure of the 1916 Easter Rising to be commemorated in a physical monument once de Valera and his Republican Fianna Fail party came into power in 1932. Markievicz is also remembered, among other revolutionary prisoners, in nearby Kilmainham Gaol where she was incarcerated after surrendering to British authorities in 1916.
