The Autobiography of Maud Gonne: A Servant of the Queen
Maud Gonne is part of Irish history: her founding of the Daughters of Ireland, in 1900, was the key that effectively opened the door of twentiethcentury politics to Irish women. Still remembered in Ireland for the inspiring public speeches she made on behalf of the sufferingthose evicted from their homes in western Ireland, the TreasonFelony prisoners on the Isle of Wright, indeed all those whom she saw as victims of imperialismshe is known, too, within and outside Ireland as the woman W. B. Yeats loved and celebrated in his poems.
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Maud Gonne is part of Irish history: her founding of the Daughters of Ireland, in 1900, was the key that effectively opened the door of twentiethcentury politics to Irish women. Still remembered in Ireland for the inspiring public speeches she made on behalf of the sufferingthose evicted from their homes in western Ireland, the TreasonFelony prisoners on the Isle of Wright, indeed all those whom she saw as victims of imperialismshe is known, too, within and outside Ireland as the woman W. B. Yeats loved and celebrated in his poems.
