Maud Gonne MacBride describes witnessing evictions in her youth and her involvement in the Land War. Maud Gonne became a supporter of Irish nationalism having witnessed the evictions which took place ...

That was the germ for my book, The Adulterous Muse: Maud Gonne, Lucien Millevoye, and W. B. Yeats. Many had written about Gonne as the love of W. B. Yeats, and more recently, as a ground-breaking ...

She was a tall, dreamy girl, a crack shot with a pistol, and she rode to hounds like a hussar. Horses were in the family, for her Irish father was hard-riding Tommy Gonne of Donnybrook, a colonel in ...

A campaign has been launched by an Irish writer and poet to honour Maud Gonne, a renowned figure in Irish history, with a statue of her in Dublin. Maud Gonne is a significant figure in Irish history ...

So here, under airtight, light-shielding glass, is a notebook given to William Butler Yeats in 1908 by Maud Gonne, the beautiful, brainy feminist Irish revolutionary and object of Yeats' infatuation ...

Maud Gonne MacBride, the committed republican, agitator and campaigner, was particularly disturbed by the plight of the poor during the difficult winter a century ago in Ireland. It moved her to write ...

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And there’s a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth ...

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These famous Irish men inspired some beautiful, adoring letters and words from the women who loved them. Not only have Irish people a way with words but they also have the ability to inspire amazing, ...