https://padlet.com/rikaogario/jymk6hkcrfii en-us 2016-02-20 16:06:33 UTC 2025-12-28 20:00:40 UTC hello@padlet.com rikaogario https://padlet.com/rikaogario/jymk6hkcrfii/wish/96234416 John MacBride was born in Westport on the 7th May 1865 and trained as a doctor, MacBride abandoned that profession in favour of work with a chemist. He travelled to America in 1896 and supported the IRB, before emigrating to South Africa, where he became a naturalised citizen of the Transvaal.

]]> 2016-02-20 16:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rikaogario/jymk6hkcrfii/wish/96234416 rikaogario https://padlet.com/rikaogario/jymk6hkcrfii/wish/96234635 When England attacked the Boer republics, McBride was commissioned as a major in the Irish Brigade, to aid the Boers in their struggle to maintain independence. When the war was over he went on a lecturing tour in the United States. From the States he went to Paris and returned to Dublin. MacBride married the Irish nationalist Maude Gonne in 1903. According to their families and friends, the 1903 marriage between Maud Gonne and John MacBride was doomed from the start. Though their son, Seán MacBride, was born in 1904, the marriage was already in a terminal state. Divorce proceedings were initiated by Gonne, when MacBride refused to accept her terms for separation, which mainly concerned access to their son. 

]]> 2016-02-20 16:26:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rikaogario/jymk6hkcrfii/wish/96234635 rikaogario https://padlet.com/rikaogario/jymk6hkcrfii/wish/96235343 He was not a member of the Irish Volunteers, but offered his services to Rising leader Thomas MacDonagh, and was at Jacob’s biscuit factory when that post was surrendered on Sunday, April 30, 1916. He was executed on May 5 at Kilmainham. He asked not to have his hands tied behind his back, but this was refused. When they did cover his eyes he made a similar request, remarking to the priest: “You know, father, I have often looked down their guns before.”
He was buried in Arbour Hill, Dublin. On 4th August 1963]]> 2016-02-20 16:43:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rikaogario/jymk6hkcrfii/wish/96235343 rikaogario https://padlet.com/rikaogario/jymk6hkcrfii/wish/96235417 http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/en/towns-villages/westport/history/john-mcbride.html
http://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/major-john-macbride/
http://www.easter1916.ie/index.php/people/a-z/major-john-mcbride/]]> 2016-02-20 16:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rikaogario/jymk6hkcrfii/wish/96235417