Gonne, Maud, married name MacBride 1865-1953
Irish nationalist and actress

The daughter of an English colonel, she was an agitator for the cause of Irish independence and edited a nationalist newspaper, L'Irlande libre, in Paris. She met W B Yeats in the early 1890s and, though Yeats wished to marry her, she ultimately rejected him and married Major John MacBride, who fought against the British in the Boer War and was executed as a rebel in 1916. She was one of the founders of Sinn F�in. Her son Se�n MacBride was Foreign Minister of the Irish Republic from 1948 to 1951.