I was trying to upload a
video about W. B. Yeats – a video I have made myself while I was in Dublin -,
but YouTube didn’t allow me to do so (don’t ask me why) when Wikipedia
suggested me to take a look at this woman (a page about her).
As this is the first time I hear
about Maud Gonne, I decided to do some research about her. I don’t feel like
writing tonight, but I would like to share the information I found about her in
order to remember to write something about this lady in the future. Maybe I will
use some aspects of her life in order to create a new character or something
like that. I don’t know!
Were you able to answer this
question without taking a look at the picture above?
No? No problem. Here it goes…
Maud Gonne, married name
Maud MacBride (born Dec. 21, 1866,
Tongham, Surrey, Eng.—died April 27, 1953, Dublin, Ire.), Irish patriot,
actress, and feminist, one of the founders of Sinn Féin (“We Ourselves”), and
an early member of the theatre movement started by her longtime suitor, W.B.
Yeats.
The daughter of an Irish
army officer and his English wife, Gonne made her debut in St. Petersburg and
later acted as hostess for her father when he was assistant adjutant general in
Dublin. Converted to republicanism by an eviction she saw during the 1880s, she
became a speaker for the Land League, founded the Daughters of Ireland (a
nationalist organization), and helped to organize the Irish brigades that
fought against the British in the South African War.
In the meantime Gonne had
become a noted actress on the Irish stage. In 1889 Yeats fell in love with her,
and the heroine of his first play, Cathleen ni Houlihan (1892), was modeled
after her; she played the title role when the play was first produced at the
Abbey Theatre in Dublin. However, Gonne refused Yeats’s many marriage
proposals. She had become involved with a French journalist in 1887 while
recovering from an illness, and she later bore two children by him. The death
of their first child helped to precipitate her interest in spiritualism. In
1903 Gonne married a fellow revolutionary, Major John MacBride. After suffering
abuse at the hands of MacBride, she legally separated from him in 1906 and
gained custody of their daughter.
MacBride took part in the
1916 Easter Rising, after which he was executed. Following his death, Gonne
began using MacBride’s name again to advance her standing in revolutionary
circles. She herself was imprisoned for six months in 1918 for her supposed
involvement in a pro-German plot. Their son, Sean MacBride, later became
foreign minister of Ireland and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. A book of her
reminiscences, A Servant of the Queen (i.e., Ireland), was published in 1938.
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