The Eternal Rebel

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The Irish poet and dramatist Eva Gore-Booth was a committed suffragist, pacifist, social worker, and labour activist. She was born at Lissadell House, County Sligo, the younger sister of Constance Gore-Booth, a revolutionary later known as Countess Markievicz. In Greek mythology Prometheus, the eternal rebel, creates humanity from clay and steals fire from the gods and gives it to humanity as civilisation. He is sentenced to perpetual torment as punishment, bound to a rock with a bird-of-prey eating his liver, which grew back each day. Prometheus represents the struggle of those who attempt to improve human existence, as did Eva Gore-Booth and her partner Esther Roper in their tireless activism. Cantigas Women’s Choir thank the anonymous donor who funded this commission.