Dublin city councillors want to erect a statue of Countess Constance Markievicz on O’Connell Street to celebrate the suffragettes on the centenary of women getting the vote. Councillors will vote next month on plans that would make Markievicz the first woman, as well as the first of the 1916 rebels, to be commemorated on the capital’s main thoroughfare.

“She was a powerful woman for advocating the rights of women,” said Vincent Jackson, the independent councillor who proposed the motion to erect the statue. “She is sufficiently significant within Irish history to warrant a place on O’Connell Street too.”

Markievicz already has a bust in St Stephen’s Green and a statue on Tara Street. Jackson has rejected the idea of moving the statue from Tara Street,