Women Who Held Torch Of Freedom
THE name of Maud Gonne McBride will be familiar to all associated with Ireland during. the troubled days at the close of last century. Now she tells her own story in "A Servant of the Queen," and it makes absorbing reading. I have always been a irifle dubious of a woman with a mission, but Maud Gonne Macbride’s autobiography contains few, if any, of the biased overstatements I expected to find. She admits her hatred of the inglish, but one can understand and sympathise with a character ‘who strove so wholehear tedly. for Treland’s ir eedont. The misunderstandings, preju‘dices and intrigues that ‘so clouded Ang!c-Irish relations are ‘vividly told by this . amazing woman who has beer. described _ as Ireland’s Joan of Arc. She is a woman of strong char-. acter, resolute determination and unswerving loyalty who ‘became almost a legendary character, and through her direct narrative one ‘gains an. understanding of... her cause that: no bare historical record could give. | This woman, . who. "helped "to. change the course.. of history, tells in vivid language "of the Land League Evictions, the Irish © famine, and her courageous and successful atfempts to bring .re- ". VieF to untold suffering. There are sidelights. on ‘Parnell, "on the attitude of the ‘Parlia‘mentary Party, and on Ruropean politics ofthe day. > She lets facts speak; there is no attempt. at romantic exaggeration. : She writes with the same uncompromising directness as she . lived, a woman. whose torch: of: freedom never flickered. for an instant. Maud Gonne Macbride’s story is / more than a personal document, it / is a book of definite historical in- ' terest.-E RIC BRADWELL. "A Servant of the Queen." ‘Maud "Gonne MacBride. Victor Gollancz, London. Our ..copy from. : the. pub: lisher=
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Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 29, 30 December 1938, Page 12
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289Women Who Held Torch Of Freedom Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 29, 30 December 1938, Page 12
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