The Autobiography of Maud Gonne: ‘A Servant of the Queen’

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

1. List of Illustrations
2. Introduction by A. Norman Jeffares & Anna MacBride White
3. Chronology of Events
4. A Note on the Text
5. I Saw the Queen
6. Foreword
7. I. Words Remembered
8. II. Education
9. III. Débutante
10. IV. Uncle William
11. V. The Alliance
12. VI. Looking for Work
13. VII. Evictions
14. VIII. My First Speech
15. IX. The Woman of the Sidhe
16. X. The Blue Mountain
17. XI. Working for Prisoners
18. XII. La Saint Patrice
19. XIII. Countering a Plot
20. XIV. Spies
21. XV. Occult Experiences
22. XVI. Victoria’s Jubilee
23. XVII. In America
24. XVIII. Famine
25. XIX. The ’98 Centenary
26. XX. “England’s Difficulty…”
27. XXI. End of the Alliance
28. XXII. Betrayal
29. XXIII. Days of Gloom
30. XXIV. The New Century
31. XXV. The Battle of the Rotunda
32. XXVI. The Inevitability of the Church
33. XXVII. Dusk
34. Notes
35. The Historical Background
36. Persons and Organisations
37. Index