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W.B. Yeats and Maud Gonne: The Dublin Years

Last week I spoke on a panel at the 2025 Conference of the International Yeats Society: W.B. Yeats: Dubliner, at Trinity College Dublin, on the theme of 'Yeats and Maud...

Maud Gonne: An Emblem for Our Times

This is the final post about our 21-day kickstarter campaign to see a statue of Maud Gonne in Dublin. Normal transmission will resume next week. If you've been meaning to...

Maud Gonne in Dublin Museums and Art Galleries:...

With tributes to Maud Gonne on public view in Dublin already, do we really need a street statue too? Yes, we do.

Maud Gonne, Eavan Boland, and Mother Ireland

Finding out that Maud Gonne and Eavan Boland share a death anniversary got me thinking about the way each of these two great Irishwomen engaged with the concept of "Mother...

Maud Gonne's Political and Social Achievements

I believe Maud Gonne deserves public honor from Dublin for her social and political achievements yes, but her statue is particularly timely now. She embodies the sort of objections those...

Does Maud Gonne deserve a statue in Dublin? Of ...

Does Maud Gonne deserve a statue in Dublin? Of course she does and a group of writers and readers, artists and historians, are starting a campaign to bring this long...