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The Ulster Archaeological Society. Maud Gonne, fighter for Women's Equality and Irish Independence by Nettie Gillespie. Maud Gonne Mc Bride was born in December 1865, into a privileged English family.

Maud Gonne, fighter for Women's Equality and Irish Independence by Nettie Gillespie

Her mother died when Maud was six. Her father was a colonel in the British army and spent a large part of his career in Ireland before dying in 1885. Maud Gonne and Inghinidhe na hÉireann‬‏