Maud Gonne

But as well, like, I like to think about Cúla Press and, and Jack and, and, and WB and how it, how it was able to, like, um, bring their work to the public more.

But, like, I think about the, the sisters, like, getting blisters on their fingers in the workshops while WB Yeats is looking out over the Atlantic, fawning over Maud Gonne.

But, [clears throat] but his sisters were the ones that were bringing in the, the, like, the financial, uh, kind of leads of the family and stuff like that.

So I, I do like to think about that as well.

Etna Carberry was her name, which was a pen name for Anna Johnston McManus, born in Antrim, poet, journalist, feminist, passionate nationalist and accomplished writer of ballads.

She's also a co-founder and member of the Daughters of Ireland, a nationalist women's organization coordinated by Maude Gonne, a revolutionary artist and writer of the Celtic Twilight.

Maude Gonne famously also the lifelong obsession of William Butler Yeats.

Maude Gonne once said that the world would thank her for never marrying Yeats because of all the unrequited love poetry he wrote about her.

But Carberry herself felt a romantic connection to old Ireland and this perfectly mirrored the cultural context of her era.

Wrote several poetry collections, including ones on Irish myths and legends.