In 1889, Dublin was alive with political energy and creative ambition. It was there that a 23-year-old poet, William Butler Yeats, met Maud Gonne, a woman whose presence would alter the course of his ...

Maud Gonne MacBride, the committed republican, agitator and campaigner, was particularly disturbed by the plight of the poor during the difficult winter a century ago in Ireland. It moved her to write ...

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A campaign has been launched by an Irish writer and poet to honour Maud Gonne, a renowned figure in Irish history, with a statue of her in Dublin. Maud Gonne is a significant figure in Irish history ...

The Hugh Lane Gallery and the National Gallery of Ireland are showing the work of the modernists Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone and of their predecessor Sarah Purser ...

However, Yeats’s speaker believes that when she reaches old age and her beauty is gone, she will look back with sadness on ...

Clodagh Finn is a journalist, writer and collector of stories. Her recent book, The Irish in the Resistance, co-authored with John Morgan, shines a light on the forgotten contributions of the Irish ...

Yeats believed in the Greek idea of the Muses as the font of poetic inspiration, finding his Muses in living women. His long poetic career was fuelled by passionate relationships with women to, and ...

Dublin, 11 March 1922 – Maud Gonne MacBride has issued an open letter to members of Cumann na mBan calling on them to use their influence to ‘put down bitterness and dissensions that would rob Ireland ...

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