Maud Gonne

Artist Walter Frederick Osborne (1859 - 1903)

Date1895

MediumPencil on paper

Dimensions23.2 x 15 cm

ClassificationsDrawings

Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated by Mrs Cecil Armstrong.

Object number379

DescriptionBorn in England, Maud Gonne (1866-1953) came to Ireland when her father Captain Thomas Gonne was posted to the Curragh Camp. Her meeting with the Fenian John O’Leary inspired her to fight for Irish freedom from British rule. She opposed the idea of Home Rule advocated by John Redmond’s Irish Parliamentary Party in favour of a full independence from Britain. In 1900 she founded Inghinidhe na hEireann (The Daughters of Ireland) which later formed part of Cumann na mBann, the women’s auxiliary of the Irish Volunteers. Maud Gonne spent most of 1913 in France but did donate some
jewellery to relieve hardship in the city. She supported the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. William Walsh, in opposing the plan to take strikers’ children to England.

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