Following the launch of Airbrushed last week, starting with an episode on Dr Kathleen Lynn, who was predominantly known for her role in Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising as the Chief Medical Officer of the Irish Citizens Army, Hot Press presents the series' second episode, delving into the life of prominent labour activist and poet Eva Gore-Booth.

Born in country Sligo in 1870 to Sir Henry and Lady Georgina Gore-Booth of Lissadell, an Anglo-Irish family, Eva was the sister of renowned Irish revolutionary Constance Gore-Booth, later known as Con Markiewicz.

She was involved in a number of movements, ranging from pacifism to Irish nationalism, suffrage, trade union equality and animal rights, and spent a majority of her life in Manchester doing work for the right of the underprivileged and working class people - yet, she is vastly overlooked as an activist both in Ireland and Britain.

Eva shared thirty years of her life with her partner Esther Roper, an English suffragist and social justice campaigner. They shared a house and are buried together in Hampstead, England. After knowing each other for four years, Eva made Esther the sole beneficiary of her estate.

Constance Markiewicz and Eva were extremely devoted to each other all throughout their lives, despite their diverging views on pacifism. The sisters' relationship was immortalised in a poem by W.B Yeats titled In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz.

Eva was a member of the executive committee of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, as well as co-secretary of the Manchester and Salford Women's Trade Union Council.

Along with Esther Roper and other activists, she set up the privately circulated feminist and gender studies journal Urania in 1916. The publication challenged gender stereotypes and worked to advance the abolishment of the gender binary, discussing same sex-relationships as well as trans bodies in what is considered to be an early precursor to Queer theory.

In this episode of Airbrushed, we discuss all this and more Dr Mary McAuliffe, historian, lecturer and director of Gender Studies in UCD, as well as the author of Richmond Barracks 1916: We Were There, 77 Women of the Easter Rising.

This episode is presented by Niamh Browne and Alana Daly-Mulligan.

The second episode of Airbrushed is out now on the Hot Press Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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