Maud Gonne

Maud Gonne MacBride (21 December 1866 – 27 April 1953) was an English-born Irish republican revolutionary, suffragette, writer, and actress. Of descent, she was won over to  by the plight of people evicted in the s. She actively agitated for  and then for the republic declared in 1916. During the 1930s, as a founding member of the Social Credit Party, she promoted the distributive programme of. Gonne was well known for being the muse and long-time love interest of Irish poet W. B. Yeats.

Quotes

 * You have a hatred of the Catholic Church, ... But, for your poetry you will be forgiven. But sin no more.
 * Maud Gonne criticizing Yeats in 1923.

Works

 * More and more I realized that Ireland could rely only on force, in some form or another, to free herself.
 * In the context of atrocities that were occurring in Ireland at the end of the 19th century on some landed estates with tenants being evicted by burning their homes with the family including babies inside.
 * In the context of atrocities that were occurring in Ireland at the end of the 19th century on some landed estates with tenants being evicted by burning their homes with the family including babies inside.