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Gonne

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Gonne  (gn, gn), Maud 1865-1953.
Irish patriot and actress. A leader of the Irish independence movement, she was a founder (1906) of Sinn Fein. William Butler Yeats's play Cathleen ni Houlihan (1892) is based on Gonne's life.
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Noun1.GonneGonne - Irish patriot and a founder of the Sinn Fein (1865-1953)
Maud Gonne


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He's kvetching about how all his work for the Irish Republic has earned him only "the daily spite of this unmannerly town" and Maud Gonne reproves him.
An unmannerly pre-Election Day splenetic by Kushner, Tony / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
In the mid-1890s Yeats, along with Maud Gonne, the woman for whom he yearned and rhapsodized for much of his adult life, hoped to establish a "Celtic Order of Mysteries" in a "Castle of the Heroes," located on an island in Lough Key in Country Roscommon.
The Poet As Politician by Moses, Michael Valdez / Reason
Many of the friends Yeats would celebrate in his poetry are introduced early on: the beautiful Irish patriot Maud Gonne (to whom Yeats proposed five times, unsuccessfully), the loyal and steadfast Lady Gregory, and John Quinn, an Irish-American lawyer and arts patron who was a friend to the poet and his father.
IRELAND'S POET : 'Such Friends: The Work of W.B. Yeats' by Cahill, Elizabeth Kirkland / Commonweal
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