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Maud Gonne Mac Bride
undated
Richmond Barracks
Dublin, Ireland
Half length full facing portrait of Maud Gonne Mac Bride wearing a high-collared dress. Maud Gonne was an Irish nationalist who had been married to Major John Mac Bride, executed for his role in the 1916 Rising. Maud Gonne was famously a muse for poet W.B. Yeats who referred to her in many of his poems. She was imprisoned in Holloway Jail with Constance Markievicz in May 1918, under suspicion of conspiring with the enemy aka The German Plot
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- Title: Maud Gonne Mac Bride
- Date Created: undated
- Location Created: unknown
- Physical Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.5 cm
- Transcript:(transcript of accompanying audio): What is the meaning of it all ? We wonder more and more. Is it political or military ? Anyhow, it is not to their credit and will certainly rebound on our oppressors. <i>Extract of letter from Countess Markievicz to Eva Gore-Booth, Holloway Jail, 8th June 1918 Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz</i>Hide TranscriptShow Transcript
- Type: photograph
- Rights: National Library of Ireland
- Medium: photograph
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