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.
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politics | Charlotte Despard | |
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... |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Constance, Countess Markievicz,
joined the women's nationalist group Inghinidhe na hEireann
(Daughters of Ireland
), founded by Maud Gonne
in 1900. She joined Sinn Féin
, too, this year. Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora. 61-2, 73 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Constance, Countess Markievicz,
was arrested along with other Sinn Féin
leaders (including Maud Gonne
) on the pretext of a German Plot, and imprisoned in Holloway Jail
; she was not released until 10 March 1919. Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora. 182, 189 |
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 |
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... |
Residence | Charlotte Despard | CD
moved from London to settle at Roebuck House in Clonskeagh (south Dublin) with Maud Gonne
, and helped make their home a radical political centre. Linklater, Andro. An Unhusbanded Life. Hutchinson. 220 |
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 |
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... |
Travel | Charlotte Despard | CD
went to Ireland again as the guest of the Irish Women's Franchise League
, and stayed with Maud Gonne
. Linklater, Andro. An Unhusbanded Life. Hutchinson. 217 |
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