Talk:Maud Gonne
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The ODNB of 2005 gives her dates as follows:
- Gonne, (Edith) Maud (1866-1953), Irish nationalist, was born on 21 December 1866 at Tongham Manor, near Farnham, Surrey, eldest daughter of Captain Thomas Gonne (1835-1886) of the 17th lancers and his wife, Edith Frith Cook (1844-1871), daughter of William Cook, merchant, and Margaretta Cockayne Frith. In April 1868 Thomas Gonne was appointed cavalry brigade major in Ireland and was stationed at Curragh Camp, co. Kildare. Maud's sister Kathleen Gonne (d. 1919) was born in September 1868. Edith Gonne, suffering from tuberculosis, gave birth in London to her third child, Margaretta, in June 1871, and died on the twenty first of that month; Margaretta died on 9 August. The trauma affected Maud Gonne deeply. She recalled that her father had said, as he showed her Edith's coffin, that she must not fear anything, not even death. ... Sources M. Gonne MacBride, A servant of the queen (1994) + The Gonne-Yeats letters, 1893-1938, ed. A. MacBride White and A. N. Jeffares (1992) + M. Gonne, 'The tower of age', unpublished autobiography, MacBride family papers, priv. coll. + W. B. Yeats, Memoirs, ed. D. Donoghue (1972) + W. B. Yeats, Autobiographies (1955) + The collected letters of W. B. Yeats, 3, ed. J. Kelly and R. Schuchard (1994) + W. B. Yeats, Poems, ed. A. N. Jeffares (1996) + Iseult Stuart to Francis Stuart, 2 May 1953, Southern Illinois University + M. Ward, Maud Gonne: Ireland's Joan of Arc (1990)
Archives NYPL, letters + priv. coll., family papers + PRO, papers, CO 904 | NL Ire., letters to Ethel Mannin SOUND BL NSA Likenesses S. Purser, oils, c.1889, NG Ire. · S. Purser, pastel drawing, 1898, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin [see illus.] · J. B. Yeats, pencil and watercolour drawing, 1907, NG Ire. · S. O'Sullivan, chalk and charcoal drawing, 1929, NG Ire. · L. Campbell, plaster bust, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin · S. Purser, oils, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin · S. Purser, pastel drawing, NG Ire. · photographs, priv. coll. · photographs, NL Ire. --mervyn 12:35, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] The White Cross
I'd just like to point out that the link to the White Cross currently links to a punk band. I know nothing of the White Cross aside from a quick Google to insure it actually existed; would someone who knows more of it want to add the definition to that article?
- It was set up by Quakers during the Anglo-Irish war to help victims - generally victims of the British and not Sinn Fein victims. Some of the money raised by Sinn Fein in America in 1919-1922 was set aside for the White Cross and it was mentioned occasionally in Dail debates. It has never been written up, partly because some saw it turn into a vote-buying and partisan system, and partly because there would have been no victims if some Sinn Fein supporters had not launched a war in 1919. An obvious subject for WP:IR but not covered as it didn't use violence and was set up by non-Catholics.86.42.197.145 (talk) 14:15, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
