<sod>In the Rising, Markievicz fought in [[St Stephen's Green]], where on the first morning—according to one diarist—she shot a member of the (unarmed) [[Dublin Metropolitan Police]], who later died of his injuries (other accounts place her at City Hall when the policeman was shot, only arriving at Stephen's Green later).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Matthews|first1=Ann|title=Renegades: Irish Republican Women 1900-1922|date=2010|publisher=Mercier Press Ltd.|isbn=1856356841|pages=129–30|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pzYkTYi3JRgC&pg=PA129|accessdate=22 March 2016}}</ref><ref>Lauren Arrington [http://irishhistoriansinbritain.org/?p=18 Did Constance Markievicz Shoot the Policeman?] Conference of Irish Historians in Britain</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Constance Markievicz: Irish Revolutionary |last=Haverty |first=Anne |author-link=Anne Haverty|year=1988 |publisher=Pandora |location=London |isbn=0-86358-161-7 |page=148 }}</ref> She was generally thought to have been appointed second in command to [[Michael Mallin]].<ref>Ward (1983), p. 112</ref> However, the publication of military service pensions and archival material surfaced statements contradicting this, the rank instead belonging to Christopher Poole,<ref>Seamus Kavanagh, letter in Military Service Pensions Collection, Military Archive IE/MA/MSPC/MSP34REF10145</ref><ref>Statement by Christopher Crothers, Military Service Pensions Collection, Military Archive IE/MA/MSPC/MSP34REF2186</ref> a captain of the Irish Citizen Army and founding member of the army's executive committee.<ref>Matthews, Ann. ''The Irish Citizen Army'' (2014), p. 36</ref> Under Mallin, she supervised the setting-up of barricades as the Rising began and was in the middle of the fighting all around Stephen's Green, wounding a [[British army]] sniper.<ref>{{cite book|last1=McKenna|first1=Joseph|title=Guerrilla Warfare in the Irish War of Independence, 1919-1921|date=2011|publisher=McFarland|isbn=0786485191|page=112|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BxLb0aZOFOMC&pg=PA112|accessdate=22 March 2016}}</ref> Trenches were dug in the Green, sheltered by the front gate; however, after British machine gun and rifle fire from the rooftops of tall buildings on the north side of the Green including the Shelbourne Hotel, the Citizen Army troops withdrew to the [[Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland|Royal College of Surgeons]] on the west side of the Green.<eod>
<sod>In the Rising, Markievicz fought in [[St Stephen's Green]], where on the first morning she shot and mortally wounded Michael Lahiff, an unarmed constable of the [[Dublin Metropolitan Police]] <ref>Lauren Arrington [http://irishhistoriansinbritain.org/?p=18 Did Constance Markievicz Shoot the Policeman?] Conference of Irish Historians in Britain</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Matthews|first1=Ann|title=Renegades: Irish Republican Women 1900-1922|date=2010|publisher=Mercier Press Ltd.|isbn=1856356841|pages=129–30|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pzYkTYi3JRgC&pg=PA129|accessdate=22 March 2016}}</ref><ref>Richardson, Neil. ''According to Their Lights''. The Collins Press, 2015, Chapter 4</ref><eod>