Maud Gonne
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Standard Name: Gonne, Maud
Birth Name: Edith Maud Gonne
Used Form: MacBride, Maud
English-born MG
subjected almost all the writing as well as all the activity in her life to her Irish nationalism. From a highly effective and dramatic orator she became a polemical journalist, first in French, then in English. She also published an autobiography of her earlier years.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | W. B. Yeats | His ardent romantic pursuit of Maud Gonne
led to his involvement in Irish nationalist politics, and inspired many poems. He also developed an intimate friendship with Florence Farr
, a writer and actress whose stylized... |
Family and Intimate relationships | W. B. Yeats | Within a few months of proposing marriage to Maud Gonne
's daughter Iseult
(as he had formerly proposed to to Gonne herself) WBY
married (on 20 October 1917, at the age of fifty-two) Georgie Hyde-Lees |
Material Conditions of Writing | W. B. Yeats | He wrote the poem in France, where he was with Maud Gonne
, after |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | KT
met the Irish Republican activist Maude Gonne
(also known for her poetic inspiration of W. B. Yeats
) at a Protestant Home Rule Association
meeting, which Tynan attended despite being Catholic. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 363 |
Friends, Associates | John Millington Synge | JMS
, in Paris, met for the first time both William Butler Yeats
and Maud Gonne
(an Irish nationalist then hiding in France to avoid being jailed at home). Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan. 9 Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xxvi. xxi |
politics | John Millington Synge | Maud Gonne
had been assisting tenants in Donegal who were threatened with eviction by their landlords. After meeting her, JMS
joined the Irish League
(further severing his links with his family's landlord class). However, he... |
Reception | John Millington Synge | Maud Gonne
, Arthur Griffith
, and other nationalists demonstrated against the play, whose picture of Irish life they found unacceptable. They attributed its negative tone to the insidious and destructive tyranny of foreign influence. McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/. under Gonne |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | In Ireland in 1919 she met Maud Gonne
and George Russell
. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 207 |
politics | Martin Ross | Ross in her turn could not approve of Maud Gonne
's socialism and Irish Nationalism. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 130 |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | After 1918 SP
was the honorary secretary of the Workers' Socialist Federation
(her former suffrage organisation). Politically transformed by the Russian revolution, she had ceased to believe that suffrage and the electoral process held any... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Kate O'Brien | KOB
refers to women writers here and there in her text—casually to Daisy Ashford
and Nancy Mitford
, admiringly to Maria Edgeworth
and Lady Gregory
(the latter admittedly for her life rather than her writings)—and... |
Friends, Associates | Naomi Jacob | NJ
met Charlotte Despard
during the days of the suffrage struggle, and later as an actress on tour visited her at Roebuck House in Clonskeagh, not long after Ireland became independent. The cabman driving... |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | Cathleen Ni Houlihan, a one-act play co-authored by AG
and W. B. Yeats
, was first performed by the Irish National Dramatic Company
at St Teresa's Hall, Dublin, with Maud Gonne
in the title role. McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xxxi, 534 Murphy, James H. “Broken Glass and Batoned Crowds: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Cathleen Ni Houlihan</span> and the Tensions of Transition”. Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921, edited by D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day, Routledge, pp. 113-27. 113 |
Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | The part of Cathleen was written for Maud Gonne
, who played it magnificently and with weird power, as Yeats
put it. Murphy, James H. “Broken Glass and Batoned Crowds: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Cathleen Ni Houlihan</span> and the Tensions of Transition”. Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921, edited by D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day, Routledge, pp. 113-27. 124 |
Reception | Nawal El Saadawi | In 2012 she won the Stig Dagerman Award for free speech and (jointly with Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni
) the Sean MacBride
Peace Prize (named after the son of Maud Gonne
). In Egypt... |
Timeline
1890: The year following Irish nationalist Ellen...
Women writers item
1890
The year following Irish nationalist Ellen O'Leary
's death from breast cancer on 15 October 1889, her Lays of Country, Home and Friends (many of them political) were collected and published.
6 October 1891: Charles Parnell, Irish patriot, died at Brighton...
National or international item
6 October 1891
Charles Parnell
, Irish patriot, died at Brighton in Sussex; Virginia Woolf
used his death to date the second section in her novel The Years, 1937.
7 October 1899: The Transvaal Committee was founded by Irish...
National or international item
7 October 1899
The Transvaal Committee
was founded by Irish nationalists in support of the Boers.
1 July 1900: Nationalists held the Patriotic Children's...
Building item
1 July 1900
Nationalists held the Patriotic Children's Treat at Clonturk Park, Dublin, in retaliation for children's events held during the visit of Queen Victoria
to Ireland in April of that year.
1 June 1912: Women suffragists, nationalists and trades...
National or international item
1 June 1912
Women suffragists, nationalists and trades unionists held a mass meeting in Dublin to insist that female suffrage be included in the Home Rule Bill; their demands were ignored by the Irish Parliamentary Party
.
14 April 1922: Four Courts, Dublin, was occupied by anti-Treaty...
National or international item
14 April 1922
Four Courts, Dublin, was occupied by anti-Treaty or Republican forces. The final attack on them by Free State or provisional government forces launched on 28 June signalled the outbreak of the Irish Civil War.
Texts
Gonne, Maud. A Servant of the Queen. Editors Jeffares, A. Norman and Anna MacBride White, University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Gonne, Maud, editor. L’Irlande Libre.
Gonne, Maud. Maud Gonne’s Irish Nationalist Writings 1895–1946. Editor Steele, Karen, Irish Academic Press, 2004.
Gonne, Maud, and W. B. Yeats. The Gonne–Yeats Letters 1893–1938. Editors White, Anna MacBride and A. Norman Jeffares, Hutchinson, 1992.
Gonne, Maud et al. Too Long a Sacrifice. Susquehanna University Press; Associated University Press, 1999.