The Autobiography of Maud Gonne: A Servant of the Queen

by Maud Gonne

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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 as the woman show more W. B. Yeats loved and celebrated in his poems. show less

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Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, History
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941.508092History & geographyHistory of EuropeBritish IslesIreland
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DA958 .M25 .A3History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaGreat BritainHistory of Great BritainIrelandModern, 1603-19th-20th centuries. Irish question
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