<p>FOREWORD BY PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY<br>When Constance Markievicz stood for election as MP for Dublin St Patrick's in 1918, few people believed she could win the seat ? yet she did. A breakthrough in the bitter struggle for female enfranchisement had come earlier that year, followed by a second landmark piece of legislation allowing women to be elected to Parliament ? and Markievicz duly became the first female MP. A member of Sinn Féin, she...