Countess de Markievicz is just one of the Irish women better known for the part they played in the Rising than for their suffrage activities. This photograph shows Countess de Markievicz performing in a pageant in 1914 as Joan of Arc appearing to an imprisoned suffragette, played by Kathleen Houston. Countess de Markievicz, with her sister, Eva Gore-Booth, established the Sligo Women's Suffrage Association in 1896. In 1908, the sisters campaigned successfully against the re-election of Winston Churchill in Manchester North-West. She attended the mass meeting of suffrage societies in June 1912 which demanded that women's suffrage be included in the Home Rule Bill. However, like other members of Cumann na mBan, she put the struggle for full independence for Ireland above the campaign for votes in a Home Rule parliament granted by Britain.