The Autobiography of Maud Gonne A Servant of the Queen |
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| Author:
| Gonne, Maud |
| Editor:
| Jeffares, A. Norman
White, Anna MacBride |
| ISBN: | 978-0-226-30252-2 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1995 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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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 twentieth-century politics to Irish women. Still remembered in Ireland for the inspiring public speeches she made on behalf of the suffering--those evicted from their homes in western Ireland, the Treason-Felony prisoners on the Isle of Wright, indeed all those whom she saw as victims of imperialism--she is known, too, within and outside Ireland...
More DescriptionMaud Gonne is part of Irish history: her founding of the Daughters of Ireland, in 1900, was the key that effectively opened the door of twentieth-century politics to Irish women. Still remembered in Ireland for the inspiring public speeches she made on behalf of the suffering--those evicted from their homes in western Ireland, the Treason-Felony prisoners on the Isle of Wright, indeed all those whom she saw as victims of imperialism--she is known, too, within and outside Ireland as the woman W. B. Yeats loved and celebrated in his poems.