Gonne, Maud

Maude Gonne MacBride, A National Theatre , United Irishman, No. 243, 24 October 1903, p. 2. 

Fanon believed that a violent rebellion could be cathartic, and indeed necessary. However, as Declan Kiberd argues, Synge was a pacifist who, like Sean O Casey later, rejected the glorification of physical force embraced by Patrick Pearse and the Irish Republican Brotherhood or Maud Gonne s Irish League. 

Attends inaugural meeting of Maud Gonne s Association Irlandaise, resigns three months later operation on swollen gland in his neck, early manifestation of Flodgkin s disease. 

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