Maude Gonne MacBride (1865-1953) was an Irish Nationalist, I.R.A. leader and actress. She was born of an Irish father and English mother, in Aldershot, England. Her mother died in 1871 and she was educated in France and in 1882 moved to Dublin when her father was posted there. Her father died in 1886 leaving her independently wealthy. She developed tuberculosis and moved back to France to recover where she met Lucien Millevoye, editor of “La Patrie”. They agreed to work for Irish and French nationalist causes. They had two children. After a couple of years she returned to Ireland where she aided people in County Donegal who were the victims of mass evictions. Her work was so successful she had to go back to France to avoid arrest.
She co-founded Inghinidhe na hEireann (Daughters of Erin), a revolutionary woman society.
Source cited: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irelandlist/1916.html
