Maud Gonne
Nationalist leader, Maud Gonne (c. ) 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. Her mother was a member of the distinguished and wealthy Cook family, who manufactured silk, linen, woolen, and cotton goods and sold them throughout the world. The Cooks were also a military family, with younger sons joining the queen's service and daughters marrying officers. Edith Cook was no exception, for Thomas Gonne was a captain in the 17th Light Dragoons when they were married on December 19, It has been suggested that Maud was born the following day, or very soon thereafter. No record exists of her birth. Since it was illegal not to record the birth of a child, it is assumed that her parents wanted to hide the date. While Maud was often vague about her birthdate, she was quoted in an unpublished Dublin newspaper article as saying that she was born "near Aldershot Camp in " Aldershot Camp, approximately 40 miles from London, was the military base at which her father was stationed.
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Gonne, Maud
Maud Gonne (–), 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. Educated privately at home, Gonne was given an unusual amount of freedom at an early age. In she went to France, where she published L'Irlande Libre (Free Ireland) and took part in the extreme nationalist Boulangist movement along with her lover, Lucien Millevoye, with whom she had two children, Georges (–) and Iseult (–). Back in Ireland in the s, Gonne took part in the ongoing land campaign, focusing media attention on hunger and poverty in Donegal. In she founded Inghínidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Ireland), a nationalist organization that concentrated on the teaching of the Irish language, support for Irish manufactures, and antirecruitment activities. In she married John MacBride, who had fought with the Boers against the British. Their only child, Seán, was born in , and a year later, they were acrimoniously divorced. Thereafter, Gonne divided her time between her house in Normandy, where Seán was mainly reared, and Ireland, where she continued to
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Maud Gonne was born on December 21, , in England. She founded Inghinidhe na hÉireann, the Daughters of Ireland, in to promote the cause of Irish independence. Gonne was also a noted Irish actress and the muse of W. B. Yeats. In , Gonne was arrested with Countess Constance Markievicz under accusations of their involvement in a pro-German plot against Britain. She was involved in the Irish War of Independence and stood against the Anglo-Irish Treaty. In , she co-founded the Women's Prisoners' Defence League, which was banned a year later. Gonne published her autobiography, A Servant of the Queen, in She died on April 27,
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Watercolor illustration of the Virgin Mary and child, attributed to Irish revolutionary, suffragette, actress, and artist Maud Gonne. Materials also include a letter concerning the painting, and a photograph of another version of the illustration.
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