Maud Gonne was an Irish revolutionary. Born Edith Maud Gonne on December 21,1866 near Farnham, Surrey, England. Maud Gonne was born into a distinguished and wealthy family, and her father served as an army captain.
Moved by the plight of the Irish tenants evicted in the Land wars she founded the daughters of Ireland in 1900. She was the muse and love of poet and playwright William Butler Yeats, though she refused his many marriage proposals. Gonne was the inspiration for many of Yeats's poems.
In 1903 she married Major John McBride. In 1918 she was arrested as a political agitator.
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| Date of Birth | 21st Dec 1866 | VIEW SOURCE |
| Date of Death | 27th Apr 1963 | VIEW SOURCE |
