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Maud Gonne MacBride (Irish: Maud Nic Ghoinn Bean Mhic Giolla Bhríghde; 21 December 1866 – 27 April 1953) was an Irish republican revolutionary, suffragette and actress. She was of Anglo-Irish descent and was won over to Irish nationalism by the plight of people evicted in the Land Wars.
Jan 31, 2015 · After the Free State was established in 1922, Maud Gonne remained a vocal figure in Irish politics and civil rights. Born in 1866, she died in Dublin in 1953. But for many years in her youth and...
In 1895, in an article on nationalist politics after the death of Parnell, William T Stead wrote of Maud Gonne that “although she is hardly likely to be successful where Wolfe Tone failed, her ...
Maud Gonne (1866–1953), lifelong nationalist activist, was born in England. Her father was an army officer and her mother died when she was five. The family then moved to Ireland, a country that Gonne adopted as her own.
Jan 7, 2015 · Born in England on December 21, 1866, Maud Gonne came from a wealthy Anglo-Irish family from Mayo. Maud’s mother died while she was very young and her father, a captain in the British Army, sent her to boarding school in France. Her father was posted in Dublin in 1882 and Maud joined him there.
Nationalist leader, Maud Gonne (c. 1865-1953) was called the "Irish Joan of Arc," for her activities on behalf of Ireland's independence movement. Born in England to English parents, Maud Gonne was the daughter of Edith Frith Cook and Thomas Gonne.
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Jan 19, 2013 · Maud's father died in 1886 leaving her financially independent. Moving back to France for health reasons after a tubercular hemorrhage, Gonne met and fell in love with French journalist Lucien Millevoye, editor of "La Patrie." The pair agreed to work for both Irish and French nationalist causes.
