| The Autobiography of Maud Gonne: A Servant of the Queen Univ of Chicago Edition Contributor(s): Gonne, Maud (Author), Jeffares, A. Norman (Editor), White, Anna MacBride (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0226302512 ISBN-13: 9780226302515 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 1995 Annotation: Maud Gonne is part of Irish history: her founding of the Daughters of Ireland, in 1900, was the key that effectively opened the door of twentieth-century politics to Irish women. Still remembered in Ireland for the inspiring public speeches she made on behalf of the suffering--those evicted from their homes in western Ireland, the Treason-Felony prisoners on the Isle of Wright, indeed all those whom she saw as victims of imperialism--she is known, too, within and outside Ireland as the woman W. B. Yeats loved and celebrated in his poems. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 94039713 |
| Physical Information: 1.47" H x 5.84" W x 8.86" (1.39 lbs) 396 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Maud Gonne is part of Irish history: her founding of the Daughters of Ireland, in 1900, was the key that effectively opened the door of twentieth-century politics to Irish women. Still remembered in Ireland for the inspiring public speeches she made on behalf of the suffering--those evicted from their homes in western Ireland, the Treason-Felony prisoners on the Isle of Wright, indeed all those whom she saw as victims of imperialism--she is known, too, within and outside Ireland as the woman W. B. Yeats loved and celebrated in his poems. |