He was an active recruiter for the sect's Isis-Urania temple, and brought in his uncle George Pollexfen, Maud Gonne, and Florence Farr.

In 1891, he visited Gonne in Ireland and proposed marriage, but was rejected.

" By January 1909, Gonne was sending Yeats letters praising the advantage given to artists who abstain from sex.

" Iseult Gonne was Maud's second child with Lucien Millevoye, and at the time was twenty-one years old.

Meanwhile, back home Irish pro-Boer fever, whipped up by Arthur Griffith and Maud Gonne in what was the most popular and most violent of the European pro-Boer movements, proved to be a ' dry run ' for 1916.

MacBride was born in Paris in 1904, the son of Major John MacBride and Maud Gonne.

Maud Gonne MacBride (, 21 December 1866 – 27 April 1953 ) was an English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress, best remembered for her turbulent relationship with William Butler Yeats.

She was born at Tongham near Farnham, Surrey, as Edith Maud Gonne, the eldest daughter of Captain Thomas Gonne ( 1835 – 1886 ) of the 17th Lancers, whose ancestors hailed from Caithness in Scotland, and his wife, Edith Frith Gonne, born Cook ( 1844 – 1871 ).

Gonne, in opposition to the attempts of the British to gain the loyalty of the young Irish during the early 1900s, was known to hold special receptions for children.

Gonne raised the boy in Paris until her husband was executed in 1916.

Around the same time, wife of Francis Stuart, Iseult Stuart ( daughter of Maud Gonne ) was arrested on suspicion of also harbouring " Heinrich Brandy ", the name Görtz was travelling under.

MacBride was the son of John MacBride and Maud Gonne.

He has since written music and additional lyrics with Guy Pratt for the musical production " Bedbug ", which was performed in a variety of venues during the Shell Connections Youth Drama Festival in 2004, and has written a musical, also with Guy Pratt, entitled " A Terrible Beauty ", based on the life of William Butler Yeats and Maude Gonne.

By this stage he was involved with the political work of Maude Gonne and Arthur Griffith, and was a vocal opponent of the visit of Queen Victoria to Ireland in 1897.

Iseult Gonne's own father was the right-wing French politician, Lucien Millevoye, with whom Maud Gonne had had an affair between 1887 and 1899.

Stuart was also friendly with the head of the German Legation in Dublin, Dr Eduard Hempel, largely as a result of Maud Gonne MacBride's rapport with him.

In its heyday, many celebrities belonged to the Golden Dawn, such as actress Florence Farr, Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, Irish writer William Butler Yeats, Welsh author Arthur Machen, English author Evelyn Underhill, and English author Aleister Crowley.

Influenced by the anthropologist Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough, several prominent writers and artists were involved in these organizations, including William Butler Yeats, Maud Gonne, Arthur Edward Waite, and Aleister Crowley.

In 1889, Yeats met Maud Gonne, then a 23-year-old heiress and ardent Nationalist.

Yeats proposed to Gonne three more times: in 1899, 1900 and 1901.

Yeats ' friendship with Gonne persisted, and, in Paris, in 1908, they finally consummated their relationship.

Nearly twenty years later, Yeats recalled the night with Gonne in his poem " A Man Young and Old ":

* Irish poet William Butler Yeats compared Helen to his lover, Maude Gonne, in his poem " No Second Troy ".

Yeats, who hated MacBride for capturing his muse Maud Gonne, and who later heard negative reports of MacBride's treatment of Gonne in their marriage, from Gonne herself, gave him the following ambivalent eulogy in his poem " Easter, 1916 ":

Maud Gonne wrote to Yeats " No I dont like your poem, it isn't worthy of you & above all it isn't worthy of its subject ... As for my husband he has entered eternity by the great door of sacrifice ... so that praying for him I can also ask for his prayers ".

Few poets have celebrated a woman's beauty to the extent Yeats did in his lyric verse about Gonne.

She joined Sinn Féin and Inghinidhe na hÉireann (' Daughters of Ireland '), a revolutionary women's movement founded by the actress and activist Maud Gonne, muse of W. B. Yeats.

Francis Stuart ( 1902 – 2000 ) started his literary life as a protégé of W. B. Yeats and married Isuelt, daughter of Maude Gonne.

* Poet William Butler Yeats is introduced by John O ' Leary to Irish nationalist Maude Gonne.

On Easter Sunday 1900 Yeat's friend and muse, Maud Gonne, founded Inghinidhe na hÉireann ( English: Daughters of Ireland ), a revolutionary women ’ s society which included writers Alice Furlong, Annie Egan, Ethna Carbery and Sinéad O ' Flanagan ( later wife of Éamon de Valera ), and the actors Máire Quinn and Sara Allgood.

Maud Gonne MacBride published her autobiography in 1938, titled A Servant of the Queen, a reference to a both a vision she had of the Irish queen of old, Cathleen ( or Caitlin ) Ní Houlihan and an ironic title considering Gonne's Irish Nationalism and rejection of the British Queen.

During the Irish War of Independence, together with Maud Gonne, she formed the Women's Prisoners ' Defence League to support Republican prisoners.

At Purser's house, Markievicz met with revolutionary patriots Michael Davitt, John O ' Leary and Maud Gonne.

" The relationship did not develop into a new phase after their night together, and soon afterwards Gonne wrote to the poet indicating that despite the physical consummation, they could not continue as they had been: " I have prayed so hard to have all earthly desire taken from my love for you and dearest, loving you as I do, I have prayed and I am praying still that the bodily desire for me may be taken from you too.

" Gonne had admired " The Isle of Statues " and sought out his acquaintance.

Maud Gonne c. 1900

His final proposal to Maud Gonne took place in the summer of 1916.

These include the graves of Daniel O ' Connell, Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Collins, Éamon de Valera, Arthur Griffith, Maude Gonne, Kevin Barry, Roger Casement, Constance Markievicz, Pádraig Ó Domhnaill, Seán MacBride, Jeremiah O ' Donovan Rossa, Frank Duff, Brendan Behan, Christy Brown, and Luke Kelly of the Dubliners.

After the war he travelled to Paris where Maud Gonne lived.

Maud Gonne McBride, no date.

Only the second, a girl named Iseult Gonne, born 1894, survived.

During the 1890s, Gonne travelled extensively throughout England, Wales, Scotland and the United States campaigning for the nationalist cause.

However, after the marriage ended, Gonne made allegations of domestic violence, including the molestation of her then 11-year-old daughter Iseult Gonne, her husband returned to Ireland.