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1. ornaross.com › from-orna › maud-gonne-and-the-landMaud Gonne And The Land War 1880s: Open Fiction Post

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   Jun 21, 2024 · Maud Gonne And The Land War: Interview with Dr Eileen Dixon, in which Gonne recalls the Irish land wars of the 1880s. From the RTE archive.

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › William-Butler-YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats | Irish Poet, Nobel Laureate & Dramatist

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   Jun 9, 2024 · In 1889 Yeats met Maud Gonne, an Irish beauty, ardent and brilliant. From that moment, as he wrote, “the troubling of my life began.” He fell in love with her, but his love was hopeless. Maud Gonne liked and admired him, but she was not in love with him.

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   • William Butler Yeats’s father, John Butler Yeats, was a barrister who eventually became a portrait painter. His mother, formerly Susan Pollexfen, w...
   • Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer William Butler Yeats was the preeminent writer of the Irish literary renaissance at the turn of the 20th ce...
   • In his early writings, William Butler Yeats evoked a legendary and supernatural Ireland, more pagan than Christian. He hoped to instill pride in th...

4. ornaross.com › from-orna › wb-yeats-on-maud-gonnesWB Yeats on Maud Gonne’s Beauty: Open Fiction Post

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   2 days ago · It all began with the day Yeats immortalised in his autobiography, in January 1889, when 23-year-old Maud Gonne, the English heiress and Irish activist came calling to his father' s house in London, and what he called “the troubling of my life” began. He had had a similar troubling with a cousin of his and Gonne stepped into her muse shoes.

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   Who is Maud Gonne?

   • That was more than a century ago, but it has never seemed more prescient. The final words go to Maud Gonne, the English-born Irish revolutionary, suffragette and actress who had a turbulent relationship with the poet William Butler Yeats. For who better than Gonne to embody the tumultuous relationship between Ireland and England?

   I moved from Britain to Ireland, where a woman is a second-class citizen

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   Who is Maud Gonne in 'when you are old'?

   • In the poem “When You Are Old,” the poet exposes the complexity of love in a bittersweet manner. Traditionally, the poem is said to be written to Maud Gonne, an Irish actress with whom Yeats was obsessed throughout his life (which is why we’ve used both masculine and female pronouns in this guide).

   When You Are Old William Butler Yeats Summary?

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   When did Maud Gonne die?

   • In 1938, she published her memoirs, A Servant of the Queen. Maud Gonne died at Roebuck, Clonskeagh, on 27th April, 1953 and afterwards was buried in the Republican Plot in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.

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   What happened to Maude Gonne's father?

   • Maude Gonne's father died in 1886 and left her financially independent. She returned to France where she met and fell in love with the radical journalist, Lucien Millevoye. Influenced by Millevoye's political views, Maud became involved in radical politics.

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6. www.rte.ie › news › regionalPlaque unveiled to remember nationalist event from 1900 - RTÉ

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   Jun 30, 2024 · The 'Patriotic Children's Treat' was organised by nationalist women including political activist Maud Gonne in 1900. A plaque commemorating a nationalist children's event held in response to...

7. www.irishtimes.com › ireland › dublinPlaque honouring children who opposed Queen Victoria visit to ...

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   Jun 28, 2024 · Her visit galvanised nationalist Ireland in opposition – especially Maud Gonne, the future muse of the poet WB Yeats and husband to executed Easter Rising leader Major John MacBride.

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   Jun 26, 2024 · This blurring of lines between performance and politics in the Irish theatre is also captured in the iconic anecdote of feminist nationalist activist and campaigner Maud Gonne arriving for one of her landmark performances of W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory’s Cathleen Ni Houlihan and approaching the stage through the audience (presumably coming ...

10. dublingazette.com › dublinlocalmatters › newsCommemorating the Patriotic Children's Treat – a response to ...

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    5 days ago · As part of the Queen’s visit festivities, a children’s entertainment event was held in Phoenix Park, drawing an estimated 30,000 attendees. Nationalist women, led by Maud Gonne, criticised the event, and claimed that only 5,000 of the 35,000 children in Dublin ‘had allowed themselves be used for a Unionist demonstration’.