Description
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 W. B. Yeats loved and celebrated in his poems.
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction by A. Norman Jeffares & Anna MacBride White
- Chronology of Events
- A Note on the Text
- I Saw the Queen
- Foreword
- I. Words Remembered
- II. Education
- III. Débutante
- IV. Uncle William
- V. The Alliance
- VI. Looking for Work
- VII. Evictions
- VIII. My First Speech
- IX. The Woman of the Sidhe
- X. The Blue Mountain
- XI. Working for Prisoners
- XII. La Saint Patrice
- XIII. Countering a Plot
- XIV. Spies
- XV. Occult Experiences
- XVI. Victoria’s Jubilee
- XVII. In America
- XVIII. Famine
- XIX. The ’98 Centenary
- XX. “England’s Difficulty…”
- XXI. End of the Alliance
- XXII. Betrayal
- XXIII. Days of Gloom
- XXIV. The New Century
- XXV. The Battle of the Rotunda
- XXVI. The Inevitability of the Church
- XXVII. Dusk
- Notes
- The Historical Background
- Persons and Organisations
- Index
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