“Subject: Irishmen in the English Army."

Lecture Ticket.

“Subject: Irishmen in the English Army."

Albert Hall, Liverpool, presented by the Liverpool Celtic Literary Society

December 10, 1900

Maud Gonne was an Irish revolutionary, suffragette, author, and actress, perhaps most remembered today as the poetic inspiration for much of W. B. Yeats’s best poetry and plays, including The Countess Cathleen and Cathleen ni Houlihan. Anglo-Irish by birth, Gonne founded The Irish League and the Daughters of Ireland (Inghinidhe na hÉireann), a nationalist women's organization, and often pushed for direct confrontation against British authority. She lectured widely across Ireland, Great Britain, and the Continent in support of the Irish nationalist cause. She had an ill-fated marriage to revolutionary John MacBride, a military leader of the Easter Rising, who was executed shortly afterward.