1. John MacBride was an Irish republican and military leader.
22 Facts About John MacBride
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John MacBride was executed by the British government for his participation in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.
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John MacBride was educated at the Christian Brothers' School, Westport, and at St Malachy's College, Belfast.
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John MacBride had studied medicine, but gave it up and began working with a chemist's firm in Dublin.
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John MacBride joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood and was associated with Michael Cusack in the early days of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
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John MacBride joined the Celtic Literary Society through which he came to know Arthur Griffith who was to remain a friend and influence throughout his life.
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John MacBride took part in the Second Boer War on the side of the Boer Republics, for whom he raised the Irish Transvaal Brigade.
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John MacBride recommended Blake as Commander, since John MacBride himself had no military experience.
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John MacBride was commissioned with the rank of Major in the Boer commandos and given Transvaal citizenship.
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Blake was injured at Ladysmith, John MacBride had to take sole command of the Brigade.
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When John MacBride became a citizen of the Transvaal, the British Government considered that, as a British subject of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, John MacBride had committed high treason by giving aid to the enemy.
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When John MacBride McBride became engaged to Maud Gonne, Stephen McKenna made the remark that he thought that it was a tragedy that such a remarkable woman should get engaged to such a rolling stone.
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John MacBride returned to Dublin and never saw his son again.
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Anthony J Jordan argues that MacBride was a much-maligned man in the divorce proceedings.
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John MacBride posits that on the merit of W B Yeats believing Maud Gonne's accusations against her husband, successive biographers of Yeats have treated them as factual, ignoring the verdict of the Parisian Divorce Court which found MacBride innocent.
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We had a house in Passy and John MacBride worked as Secretary to Victor Collins who earned a large salary as correspondent to the New York Sun and Laffan's Bureau, a fairly important newsagency in New York.
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John MacBride did not know a word of French and must often have been very lonely, as my work kept me much in Ireland.
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John MacBride was in Dublin early on Easter Monday morning to meet his brother Dr Anthony MacBride, who was arriving from Westport to be married on the Wednesday.
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John MacBride offered his services and was appointed second-in-command at the Jacob's factory.
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Yeats, who was jealous of John MacBride for marrying Maud Gonne gave John MacBride an ambivalent eulogy in his poem "Easter, 1916":.
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John MacBride had done most bitter wrong To some who are near my heart, Yet I number him in the song; He, too, has resigned his part In the casual comedy; He, too, has been changed in his turn, Transformed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.
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In November 2016 Ciaran MacSuibhne, a member of the local St Patrick's Drama Group wrote an amateur, three-act play detailing various stages in John MacBride's life including his experiences in the Second Boer War, his marriage to and separation from Maud Gonne and the concern regarding the future of their only child, Sean, which followed.