Maud gonne biography

Maud Gonne MacBride was an English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress.

Maud gonne biography

She led the Inghinidhe na hÉireann - Daughters of Ireland, which was a radical Irish nationalist women's organisation, from 1900 to 1914. She is best remembered by many for her relationship with poet William Butler Yeats. She was the mother to Nobel Peace Prize winner Seán MacBride, and she is often referred to as ^[1] Ireland's Joan of Arc.

Biography

Edith Gonne was born at Tongham near Farnham, Surrey,her parents were Captain Thomas Gonne and Edith Frith Gonne Cook she was called Maude as a child.

Maud's mother died while was still a child and her father sent her to a boarding school in France to be educated.

Maud Gonne's father died of typhoid fever in 1884,and she received a large inheritance. Maude moved to France to be with her aunt,where she met and fell in love with politi