Maud Gonne
Irish revolutionary and activist (1866-1953)
Maud Gonne MacBride (21 December 1866 – 27 April 1953) was an English-born Irish republican revolutionary, suffragette, writer, and actress. Of Anglo-Irish descent, she was won over to Irish nationalism by the plight of people evicted in the Land Wars. She actively agitated for Home Rule and then for the republic declared in 1916. During the 1930s, as a founding member of the Social Credit Party, she promoted the distributive programme of C. H. Douglas. Gonne was well known for being the muse and long-time love interest of Irish poet W. B. Yeats.
Quotes edit
- You have a hatred of the Catholic Church, ... But, for your poetry you will be forgiven. But sin no more.
- Maud Gonne criticizing Yeats in 1923. Tehan, A. B. (1999-09-26). with passionate intensity biography explores Yeats' fascination with the world of the occult. ProQuest.
Works edit
Maud Gonne (1995) (in en). The Autobiography of Maud Gonne: a servant of the queen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Wikidata Q115937220. ISBN 0-2263-0251-2. OCLC 1028188256.
- More and more I realized that Ireland could rely only on force, in some form or another, to free herself.
- Seán McMahon (1987) (in en). A book of Irish quotations. Dublin: O'Brien Press. p. 91. Wikidata Q115941703. ISBN 0-86278-137-X. OCLC 1200288435.
- In the context of atrocities that were occurring in Ireland at the end of the 19th century on some landed estates with tenants being evicted by burning their homes with the family including babies inside.
