Speaker Emerita Nancy receiving a First Edition "The Death of Fionavar"

Eva Gore-Booth’s The Death of Fionavar From the Triumph of Maeve was presented to Pelosi in the form of a first edition copy by Ian Hyland.
A suffragist, artist and poet, Gore-Booth wrote the book in tribute to the many who died for freedom and peace in Ireland. The book was published in May 1916 and illustrated by Gore-Booth’s sister, Constance, better known as Constance Markievicz.
Serving time in Holloway, her death sentence having been commuted to life imprisonment, Countess Markievicz illustrated the book with rook feathers she collected in the prison yard.
Eva made a promise to her sister, before her sister was condemned to death. It is this line that Hyland quotes in presenting the gift to Pelosi: “We meet beyond earth’s barred gate - where all the world’s wild rebels are.”