Maud Gonne

Maud Gonne

Maud Gonne MacBride was an Irish republican revolutionary, suffragette and actress. She claimed Anglo-Irish descent, but had been born in England to English parents. Gonne actively agitated for Home Rule and then for the republic declared in 1916. During the 1930s, as a founding member of the Social Credit Party, she promoted the distributive programme of C. H. Douglas. At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, she expressed support for Germany. Gonne was well known for being the muse and long-time love interest of Irish poet W. B. Yeats.