October, 2014 - Constance Markievicz - Kiss Your Gun

Constance Markievicz (1868-1927)

An Irish aristocrat by birth and Polish Countess by marriage, Constance attended her first revolutionary 'Daughters of Ireland' meeting wearing a ball gown and tiara.  Only a year later she had founded a pivotal paramilitary youth-training organization and spent the rest of her life dedicated to the poor, suffrage, and Irish nationalism.  She was second-in-command during an Easter Rising battle, where she shot a sniper and, as she finally surrendered, famously kissed her gun before handing it over.  She was the only woman placed in solitary confinement (perhaps to prevent her from mobilizing the other female prisoners).  When her death sentence was commuted because of her gender, she said, "I do wish your lot had the decency to shoot me."  She later became the first woman elected to the British House of Commons and first female Irish cabinet minister, which made her only the second in all of Europe.  At 59, she died of appendicitis in a public hospital ward - by choice, after having donated all of her wealth.

The Drink:

Kiss Your Gun

1 1/2 oz Irish Whiskey
1/2 oz Irish Mist
1/2 oz Amaro Cora
dash orange liqueur
dash lime juice

Drinkability: 3.5/4 (or 3, 5, or 4)
Drunkability: 4.5 - no mixers
Taxic Diversity: 4
Accessibility: 2 - amaro
Priority for Conservation - 4 - mostly

Comments: "In line with this theme, I have made up most of these cocktails" - OH

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