![]() Maud Gonne was presented at the viceregal court in Dublin the following year, and, with her striking height (she was nearly six feet tall) and red-gold hair, her beauty made an immediate impression. The family returned to Ireland in 1882 when Thomas was given a senior position in the army. In the 1870s, while Thomas was serving as a British military attache in Eastern Europe, India and Russia, his daughters stayed with their mother's relatives in London and then spent several years in Europe. Thomas Gonne was one of the greatest influences in her life. He was an unusual father for his time he was affectionate and easy-going, and his daughters, especially Maud, adored him. Edith Gonne died of tuberculosis in 1871, but her husband was determined to rear their daughters himself. In 1868, her sister Kathleen Gonne was born. ![]() The family had no connections with Ireland until the year after Maud's birth, when her father's regiment was sent there. ![]() He was an excellent linguist and took a keen interest in the arts, especially music and the theater. Her mother Edith Cook Gonne came from a wealthy family, and her father Thomas Gonne was an officer in the British army. She was born on December 21, 1866, near Aldershot, Surrey, England, into a privileged background. More than a poetic allusion, Gonne devoted over 50 years of her life to Irish political, cultural, and social causes. The process began, to her annoyance, while she was still alive. Maud Gonne's long public career has been overshadowed by her role as the muse of William Butler Yeats, who immortalized her in his poetry. Publications: Dawn (1904, reprinted, Proscenium Press, 1970) A Servant of the Queen (Gollancz, 1938) Yeats and Ireland (Macmillan, 1940). Yeats (1889) founded L'Irlande Libre, Paris (1897) co-founded Irish Transvaal Committee (1899) founded and served as president of Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Ireland, 1900) co-founded Women's Prisoners' Defence League (1922). 1904).īecame involved in Irish nationalist cause (1880s) met with W.B. 1894) (with John MacBride) Sean MacBride (b. Born Maud Gonne on December 21, 1866, near Aldershot, Surrey, England died at her home Roebuck House in Dublin, Ireland, on Apeldest daughter of Thomas Gonne and Edith (Cook) Gonne educated at home married John MacBride, on Februchildren (with Lucien Millevoye) Georges (1890–1891) and Iseult Gonne Stuart (b. He’d already chosen it as his final resting-place when he died, so he is looking ahead to when he himself will lie ‘under Ben Bulben’.Irish activist, journalist and feminist who devoted over 50 years to Irish political, cultural, and social causes. Ben Bulben is the name of a flat-topped mountain near Sligo, which Yeats had a particular attachment to. Yeats quotations with the final three lines of his poem ‘ Under Ben Bulben’, which became Yeats’s epitaph when he died in 1939, and can be found on his tomb. The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,įish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer longĬormac McCarthy borrowed the opening words for the title of his novel, No Country for Old Men. In one another’s arms, birds in the trees, Yeats poem: they begin ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, his classic 1927 poem about growing older and feeling increasingly out of place in the world: These are perhaps the best-known opening words to any W. However, these words, and the poem as a whole, are a loose translation of a poem by the fifteenth-century French poet Ronsard. Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep … When you are old and grey and full of sleep,Īnd nodding by the fire, take down this book,Īnd slowly read, and dream of the soft look In 1891, when Yeats wrote ‘When You Are Old’, he and Gonne were in a relationship, but it was failing and Yeats feared he was losing her: These words open one of Yeats’s best-known early poems, which is believed to be about Maud Gonne, Yeats’s muse. ![]() ‘When you are old and grey and full of sleep’. One of Yeats’s shortest poems is ‘Death’, in which he talks about how ‘man has created death’: no other living thing understands the concept of death or that it will die one day, since it has no concept of its own mortality. ![]()
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