Title: Willie Yeats and the Gonne-MacBrides
First published: 1997
Description: This book examines the letters between Maud Gonne and WB Yeats focussing on the issue of Major John MacBride and the divorce case in Paris in 1905. Maud used Yeats as her second and confidant during the case. She wrote in detail to Willie who was so happhy at the prospect of regaining her from her estranged husband. Yeats propounded Maud's criticisms of John to all and sundry and in his poetry. the author argues that after John's execution Maud went as far as she could in saying sorry to her husband without incriminating herself. She wrote movingly about him to Yeats and rejected Yeat's 'Easter 1916' as being unworthy of the sacrifice of her husband and the others. Maud wrote that she would pray for and to her husband.
Subjects: Biography, Feminists, Friends and associates, Irish Poets, Poets, Irish, Revolutionaries
Places: Ireland
People: John MacBride (1865-1916), Maud Gonne (1866-1953), W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century
LC classification: PR5906 .J67 1997