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Maud Gonne

NOUN
  1. Irish patriot and a founder of the Sinn Fein (1865-1953)

How To Use Maud Gonne In A Sentence

  • Maud Gonne was the muse of W.B. Yeats, the Irish poet.
  • He twice proposed marriage to Maud Gonne, and when she refused him he transferred his affections to her teenage daughter.
  • He's kvetching about how all his work for the Irish Republic has earned him only ‘the daily spite of this unmannerly town’ and Maud Gonne reproves him.
  • That self-moving, selfcreating nation necessitated an Irish centre of policy, and I planned a premature impossible peace between those two devouring heads because I was sedentary and thoughtful; but Maud Gonne was not sedentary, and I noticed that before some great event she did not think but became exceedingly superstitious. Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
  • Maud Gonne was the muse of W.B. Yeats, the Irish poet.
  • In 1889 Yeats met his great love, Maud Gonne (1866-1953), an actress and Irish revolutionary who became a major landmark in his life and imagination.
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