Maud Gonne

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Maud Gonne MacBride (Irish: Maud Nic Ghoinn Bean Mhic Giolla Bhríghde; born Edith Maud Gonne; 21 December 1866 – 27 April 1953) was an English actress and prominent Irish republican sympathiser. She falsely claimed Anglo-Irish descent, but was actually born in England to English parents. Gonne actively agitated for Irish home rule and then for the republic declared in 1916. During the 1930s, as a founding member of the Social Credit Party, she promoted the distributive programme of C. H. Douglas. At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, she expressed support for Nazi Germany. Gonne was best known for being the muse and long-time love interest of Irish poet W. B. Yeats.

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