An Activist’s Spiritual Experience: Maud Gonne’s “Spirit World” in her Autobiography and Letters to Yeats
Studi Irlandesi April 10, 2025 Samanta Trivellini
Spirituality and the occult represent important aspects of Maud Gonne’s life and writings, and their investigation offers an unusual perspective on this famous icon of revolutionary Ireland. Her memoir and letters to Yeats testify to a lasting relationship with “the spirit world” in as diverse forms as Celtic mysticism, occult practices, psychic phenomena, and the Catholic faith. By...
DOI: 10.36253/sijis-2239-3978-14622 (opens in new tab)
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Golden dawn
Maud gonne
Occult
Political autobiography
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