#Maud Gonne

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1902 – Premiere of W.B. Yeats’ Cathleen ni Houlihan starring Maud Gonne. The play is about the failed rebellion of 1798, with a woman representing the ideal of an independent Irish republic.

Cathleen ni Houlihan is a one-act play written by William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory in 1902. It was first performed on 2 April of that year and first published in October on Samhain. The play centers on the 1798 Rebellion. The play is startlingly nationalistic, in its last pages encouraging young men to sacrifice their lives for the heroine Cathleen ni Houlihan, who represents an independent…

[hyperions-fate]

Many that are red-cheeked now will be pale-cheeked; many that have been free to walk the hills and the bogs and the rushes will be sent to walk hard streets in far countries; many a good plan will be broken; many that have gathered money will not stay to spend it; many a child will be born, and there will be no father at its christening to give it a name. They that had red cheeks will have pale cheeks for my sake; and for all that, they will think they are well paid.

Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats, Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)

[milk-and-cold-custard]

WB Yeats was a loser incel and I'm tired of pretending he's not. Literally in "Easter 1916" look how he talks about Maud Gonne's husband John MacBride.

also the way people talk about Gonne and Yeats is weird. She rejected him and he continued to harass her trying to propose then started try to propose to her DAUGHTER.

WB Yeat's would be crying on a reddit forum about how he's "such a nice guy and she just doesn't get it" if he was born today.

[victusinveritas]

[tarotporkema]

Maud Gonne: la maga hija de Irlanda

Maud Gonne, la destacada maga, poeta y activista por los derechos de las mujeres y la independencia de Irlanda

Maud Gonne es conocida por haber sido el interés romántico de W.B. Yeats, así como Leila Waddell – brillante compositora y maga destacada por propio mérito- lo es por haber sido pareja de Aleister Crowley. Leila y Maud compartieron, además, un doble compromiso político: la indeclinable adhesión al feminismo y; la lucha en todos los frentes por la independencia de Irlanda.

Maud Gonne participó…

[corgabe]

Who do you think is the most fuckable writer of the Irish Literary Revival? Like I want to say Yeats simply for his constant damp sad rizz, but like Arthur Griffith is right there and he looks like a world class muff diver

My professor: please drop this class

[appointmentwithmryeats]

[pikslasrce]

🎧 AM I TOO LATE

NO UR NOT HI

and when im in bed, im dead, no one to check my pulse. and so instead, my head begs not to be so full. and when I fall asleep, which part of me writes the dream and which part falls asleep? whos running the machine?

maud gone by car seat headrest

[breitzbachbea]

I have to think more about feminity too. Not just masculinity. Fetch me the papers again.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1916 – Easter Rising | Irish patriot, John MacBride, is executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol.

Born in Westport, Co Mayo, MacBride travelled to America in 1896 to further the aims of the IRB, thereafter travelling to South Africa where he raised the Irish Transvaal Brigade, which became known as MacBride’s Brigade, to fight against the English during the Second Boer War where, as happened far too often in history, Irish fought against Irish. A larger number of Irish (whose sympathies led…

[armeniuslaurant]

*listens to Yeat's Grave by The Cranberries*

*files "No Second Troy is a Pattison Poem" under Takes Only To Share With Book Club*

[manmetaphysical]

So it is June 13th (1865) and the birthday of W.B. Yeats and good to remember all his words and reflect on his astrology and his synastry with his unrequited love -Maud Gonne. So much to learn from Yeats, the great Gemini who wrote from the Deep Heart’s Core: It starts with the first two stanzas of 'Sailing to Byzantium' a reflection on old age.

[xxscrabiesxx]

folks PLEASE if you haven't already *go get a library card* like im gonna sound like those 2012 posts that are like 'ALRIGHTY KIDS TAKE A SEAT BECAUSE AUNTIE [username] HAS SOME WISDOM FOR YOU' but seriously go get a library card.... they give you books for free ♥️ and audiobooks! for free ♥️♥️ and you can return them ♥️ and get NEW ones!! ♥️♥️ my library lets me take out SEVENTYFIVE BOOKS AT ONCE ♥️♥️ for free ♥️ and you can just read them online, if you just download their app ♥️♥️

[theperfectpints]

Established in 1833, John Kavanagh's got its nickname as the bar is built into the side of Glasnevin Cemetery and gravediggers would often stop in for a pint of "the black stuff" after a hard day's work.

As Ireland's National Cemetery, Glasnevin is the final resting place for many of the island's most famous sons and daughters, including Daniel O'Connell, Maude Gonne and Brendan Behan.

Thanks to @dublinsnugs for the lovely snap

[talonabraxas]

Born today... Maud Gonne, 21st December, 1866.image; illustration for The coming of Lugh- A Celtic Wonder tale retold by Elle Young 1909. http://www.carrowkeel.com/sites/moytura/lugh.html?fbclid=IwAR2Z0xersg2a1ga4a2UkRz4slmnTyOd4MCh_VtrIcYBgSfkES8y6SzbjEl4

[memecucker]

TIL that the first female Member of Parliament in the UK was Constance Markievicz who was a countess born into an upper class family of Protestant Anglo-Irish origin but she never actually sat at Westminster because Markievicz was elected as a member of Sinn Fein and a lifelong supporter of the Irish nationalist movement and supported the anti-Treaty side during the civil war. So like, if the UK doesn’t commemorate her as much as you’d think the first woman elected to parliament would be, I think that’s why

Also

In 1908, Markievicz became actively involved in nationalist politics in Ireland. She joined Sinn Féin and Inghinidhe na hÉireann ('Daughters of Ireland'), a revolutionary women's movement founded by the actress and activist Maud Gonne, muse of WB Yeats. Markievicz came directly to her first meeting from a function at Dublin Castle, the seat of British rule in Ireland, wearing a satin ball gown and a diamond tiara. Naturally, the members looked upon her with some hostility. This refreshing change from being ‘"kowtowed" to’ as a countess only made her more eager to join, she told her friend Helena Molony.

She seems cool