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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1916 William Butler Yeats asked Maud Gonne to marry him. This had become something of a habit over the twenty-seven years since he had first met and fallen in love with her and, as he ...

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 ...

Dublin, 11 March 1922 – Maud Gonne MacBride has issued an open letter to members of Cumann na mBan calling on them to use their influence to ‘put down bitterness and dissensions that would rob Ireland ...

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RARE images of Maud Gonne, caricatured in bloomers and gaiters by the English newspapers of the day, gave Yeats scholars some new historical material and a laugh at the Yeats International Summer ...

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