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...second prize of $300 goes to Elliot S. Vesell '55. Daniel Steiner '54 is the winner of the third prize of $100. Honorable mentions were awarded to Ralph N. Maud '53 and Fred J. Levy...
Diamond Thought. On a white horse, wearing a green dress and her bronze knee-length hair done up in thick braids, Maud Gonne rode into Donegal, where the British battering rams had made a thousand people homeless. She organized resistance meetings, put hope into the peasants, fear into landlords' agents. Once, riding through a mountain glen, she came upon police guarding four young prisoners. Said she, in a voice of authority: "Let them go now; I take full responsibility," and waved the prisoners away. The peasants called her a Woman of the Sidhe, one with magic powers. Her fame...
...Said Maud: "You make beautiful poetry out of what you call your unhappiness, and you are happy in that. The world should thank you for not marrying me." She began campaigning for the release of Irish fighters serving life sentences in England's jails, and, after three trips to the U.S. raising funds and commotion, had the British government so worried that they freed the prisoners...
...Maud Gonne wore widow's weeds for MacBride, but also for Ireland. She did not agree with Eamon de Valera's government. She wrote her memoirs, and was outraged when Communist organizers came to Ireland in 1930 and "one young puppy had the cheek to tell me they had come to teach us how to fight." Bedridden but still a political force, she backed her son, Sean MacBride, and his Republican Party in a successful campaign against De Valera in 1948, but when she went to the polls, one who saw her cried: "That woman is exactly like...
Last week, in a rambling, old-world mansion outside Dublin, old and grey and full of sleep, Maud Gonne died...