#johnmacbride

[jjkenny10]

John MacBride, Maud Gonne, Sean MacBride and Roger Casement

Ireland's difficult transformation to a Republic

After the Rising, John MacBride, was court martialed under the Defiance of the Realm Act and subsequently executed by firing squad in Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol. He was executed on 5th May 1916, facing the British firing squad, he said he did not wish to be blindfolded, adding "I have looked down the muzzles of too many guns in the South African war to fear death and now please carry out your sentence."  He is buried in the cemetery at Arbour Hill Prison in Dublin.

[jjkenny10]

John MacBride, Maud Gonne, Sean MacBride and Roger Casement

Ireland's difficult transformation to a Republic

When John MacBride became a citizen of the Transvaal, the British considered that, as an Irishman and citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, he had given aid to the enemy. After the war he travelled to Paris where Maud Gonne lived. In 1903, he married her to the disapproval of many, including W. B. Yeats, who had previously proposed to her.