Maud Edith MacBride

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Maud Edith MacBride (Gonne)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Tongham, Surrey, UK
Death: April 27, 1953 (86)
Clonskeagh, Dublin City, Dublin, Ireland
Place of Burial: Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Thomas Gonne and Edith Frith Gonne
Wife of Lucien Millevoye and Major John MacBride
Mother of Iseult Lucille Germaine; Private; Georges Silvère Gonne; Private and Seán MacBride, Nobel Peace Prize, 1974
Sister of Kathleen Gonne

Managed by: Yigal Burstein
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About Maud Edith MacBride

Of Anglo-Irish descent, an active Irish nationalist and supporter of Irish arts. Refused W. B. Yeats's proposa of marriage.in 1891 (he later also proposed unsucessfully to her daughter, but as an actress took the leading roles in his plays, namely "Cathleen N. Houlihan" (1902). Became a Catholic, and married (1903) the nationalist John MacBride (executed Kilmainham Jail, 1916), by whom she bore a son, Sean MacBride later famous as a politician. Interned in Holloway Jail London in 1918 for 6 ...

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Maud Edith MacBride's Timeline

1866
December 21, 1866
Tongham, Surrey, UK
1890
1890
1894
August 6, 1894
1904
January 26, 1904
Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
1953
April 27, 1953
Age 86
Clonskeagh, Dublin City, Dublin, Ireland
April 1953
Age 86
Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland