Servant of the Queen - MacBride Maud Gonne
Maud Gonne MacBride is part of Irish history: her foundation of the women's group Inghinidhe na hEireann. the Daughters of Ireland, in 1900, was the key that effectively opened the door of politics in…
Specifikacia Servant of the Queen - MacBride Maud Gonne
Maud Gonne MacBride is part of Irish history: her foundation of the women's group Inghinidhe na hEireann. the Daughters of Ireland, in 1900, was the key that effectively opened the door of politics in the twentieth century to Irishwomen. Still remembered in Ireland for the fiery, emotive public speeches she made on behalf of the suffering - those evicted from their homes in the West of Ireland, the Treason-Felony prisoners on the Isle of Wight, indeed all those whom she saw as victims of the imperialism she constantly opposed - she is known, too, within and outside Ireland as the woman W. B. Yeats loved and celebrated in his poems. He wrote poems to and about her after they first met in 18S9, and he continued to do so in his middle age and up to his seventies. when he remembered her 'straight back and arrogant head', her gentleness, and her wildness. And something of those extremes in