Noun
Irish patriot and a founder of the Sinn Fein (1865-1953)
Source: WordNetFoster (2003), 656 The person in charge of this operation for the Irish Government was Sean MacBride, son of Maud Gonne MacBride, and then Minister of External Affairs. Source: Internet
Gonne MacBride Maud 'A Servant of the Queen' Gollanz 1938 pp. 287–289 At fifteen, she proposed to Yeats. Source: Internet
He asked the publisher for a raise to hire 23-year-old Iseult Gonne as a typist – causing rumors Pound was having an affair with her – but was turned down. Source: Internet
A glimpse of what the sisters faced in the 1890’s can be derived from the autobiography of Maud Gonne, the beautiful English woman who devoted her life to the cause of Irish freedom. Source: Internet
Westport Books 2003 pp 139–153, Willie Yeats & The Gonne MacBrides by Anthony Jordan Westport books 1997 pp.83–88 Gonne's marriage to MacBride, as forecast by both their sets of friends and relations, was a disaster early on. Source: Internet
Foster notes how Gonne was "notoriously unreliable on dates and places (1997, 57) Gonne was eighteen months younger than Yeats and later claimed she met the poet as a "paint-stained art student." Source: Internet