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Elizabeth Burke-Plunkett
Elizabeth Mary Margaret Burke-Plunkett (1866–1944), Countess of Fingall was born in Moycullen, a daughter of George Edmond Burke of Danesfield and became an activist in Irish industrial, charitable and cultural groups, serving as second president of the Camogie Association and first president of the Irish Countrywomen's Association.〔Diarmuid Ferriter: History of the ICA (1994)〕
==Countess==
In 1883 at 17 she married Arthur James Francis Plunkett, 11th Earl of Fingall, 4th Baron Fingall (1859–1929), state steward to the colonial administration in Dublin Castle and one of the few Catholics to hold an Irish peerage, thus becoming Countess Fingall.
She befriended unionists such as Field Marshal Douglas Haig, Horace Plunkett, and Chief Secretary George Wyndham and also nationalist leaders such as Charles Stuart Parnell, Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera. Her colourful memoir of those circles were published in 1927.〔''Seventy Years Young, Memoires of Elizabeth, Countess of Fingal'', by Elizabeth Burke Plunkett, Lady Fingall. First published by Collins of London in November 1937; 1991 edition published by The Lilliput Press, Dublin 7, Ireland (0-946640-74-2 ).〕
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