IRISH LEAGUERS.

Evening Star, Issue 11891, 20 May 1903, Page 6

IRISH LEAGUERS.

A FREE FIGHT AND MUCH DAMAGE. MAUD GONNE EXPELLED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 19. (Received May 20, at 9 a.m.) The Gaelic Leaguers tried to capture a meeting held at the Rotunda in Dublin in aid of the Parliamentary Fund. Mrs Major M'Bride (Maud Gonne) interrogated Lord Mayor Harrington as to whether he intended to present a Corporation address on the occasion of the King's visit. The mayor returned an evasive reply. Eventually the Leaguers rushed the platform, and a free fight ensued, chairs being used as weapons. Several persons, including Mr John O'Donnell, M.P., had to be removed' to the hospital. Mrs M'Bride was eventually expelled from the platform. Miss Maud Gonne recentlv became the wife of Major M'Bride, of Irish-Brigade-in-the-Boer-service celebrity. She was at one time a great favorite in Irish Vice-Regal circles, and perhaps the loveliest girl "in Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty." She is now a magnificent woman of seven - and - thirty, always perfectly dressed, and with the most charming manners in private life. Why a girl whose father was once in command of Dublin Garrison District, and Protestant and Loyalist to the backbone, should have developed such pronounced sympathy with the most extreme section of Irish politics is something of a mvstery. Her acquaintance with Major M'Bride originated when she expressed a desire to fight in the ranks of the Boer army. Her husband, a native of County Mayo, belongs by birth to a widely different class than that from which the fair and fiery political! sprang.