... help from her friends BY KEN GRIFFIN A DROGHEDA woman who knew leading republican figures such as Countess Markievicz and Maud Gonne celebrated her 95th birthday in the Cottage Hospital last week Mimi Tiernan-Briscoe was a prominent local member of Cumann ...

... giving out ammunition to the enemy forces. September 30: Mrs Despard - the sister of Viscount Field-Marshal French - and Mrs Maud Gonne Macßride visited Drogheda to investigate the alleged branding of lames O'Reilly, whose case had been referred to in the ...

... see how women like Cleoptra, Joan of Arc, Catherine the Great, Grace O'Malley (our own private queen) Emily Pankhurst, and Maud Gonne Mcßride changed the course of history. Why does this person feel so insecure dealing with women in banks etc. for as a female ...

... then marr i e d to E d war d Taoiseach Eamon De Briscoe, she was always Valera to her home for tea. known as Mimi Tiernan, Maud Gonne, the dancing teacher. Mcßride/Barry Elgin and She taught Irish Dev were dose associates dancing and ballet and frequent ...

... back home to Drogheda. In the 1900 s women were excluded from. political organisations. However, under the; leadership of Maude Gonne, a British soldier'sdaughter, Inghinidhe na hgireann was established with the aims of completing the independence of Ireland ...

... one painting to illustrate the poem but it just grew and grew. Some of the paintings are also inspired by Yeats' love for Maude Gonne and also influenced by the Newgrange theme,' she said. A former pupil of Our Lady's College Greenhills, Susan studied at ...

... Scott Thurow - for a Hollywood film. He is also producing the text fora West End musical based on the love story between Maude Gonne Mcßride and William Butler Yeats. Shane was accompanied to the launch by his wife Ann, regular visitors to Duleek as they ...