Complex sentence: Educated at a Carmelite convent in Laval, France, when she returned to Ireland, she was referred to in public as Maud Gonne's niece rather than as her daughter, due to the conservative nature of Irish society at the time.
Split into simpler sentences: Educated at a Carmelite convent in Laval, France, when she returned to Ireland, she was referred to in public as Maud Gonne's niece rather than as her daughter. This was due to the conservative nature of Irish society at the time.