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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.Gonne - Irish patriot and a founder of the Sinn Fein (1865-1953)Gonne - Irish patriot and a founder of the Sinn Fein (1865-1953)


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My lord wyll that you with mee gonne to heaven-blysse, both blood and bone, evermore there to bee.
Marie Gonne, who is also artistic director of the group, and Hal York, the drama focuses on the passion an aging artist feels for his female protaga and the mutual angst that follows.
In this extract we see references (although it is in their denial) to historical events in March 1804 at Castle Hill, when a badly planned Irish insurgence broke out, to McBride--a name that is intimately associated with Irish nationalism (John McBride married Maud Gonne in 1903).
 
 
 
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