Editing Seán MacBride (section)

==Early life==
MacBride was born in [[Paris]] in 1904, the son of [[Maud Gonne]] and Major [[John MacBride]].<ref name="Saturday Evening Post:1949">Saturday Evening Post; 23 April 1949, Vol. 221 Issue 43, pp. 31–174, 5p</ref> As a founding member of [[Inghinidhe na hÉireann]] and [[Cumann na mBan]], his mother was to become a prominent figure in [[Irish nationalism|Irish nationalist]] and [[Irish republicanism|republican]] circles.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MacBride, (Edith) Maud Gonne {{!}} Dictionary of Irish Biography |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/macbride-edith-maud-gonne-a5110 |access-date=14 June 2021 |website=www.dib.ie}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bendheim |first=Kim |url=https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/the-fascination-of-whats-difficult/ |title=The Fascination of What's Difficult: A Life of Maud Gonne |publisher=OR Books |year=2021 |isbn=978-1682192061}}</ref> Later, in the 1930s, she became a devotee of the [[social credit]] ideas of [[C. H. Douglas|Major C.H. Douglas]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Warren |first=Gordon |date=24 November 2020 |title=Maud Gonne and the 1930s' movement for basic income in Ireland |url=https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/1124/1180189-maud-gonne-basic-income-irish-social-credit-party-ireland-1930s/ |language=en}}</ref> and was "noisily anti-Semitic".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Boyce |first=David George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NkRdDwAAQBAJ&dq=maud+gonne+anti+semitic&pg=PA108 |title=Revolution in Ireland, 1879–1923 |date=1 January 1988 |publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education |isbn=978-1-349-18985-4 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Garvin |first=Tom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2fb4AwAAQBAJ&dq=maud+gonne+anti+semitic&pg=PT170 |title=Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland 1858–1928: Patriots, Priests and the Roots of the Irish Revolution |date=13 September 2005 |publisher=Gill & Macmillan Ltd |isbn=978-0-7171-6362-5 |language=en}}</ref> His father had led the [[Irish Transvaal Brigade]] against the [[British Empire|British]] in the [[Second Boer War]]. Within a year of MacBride's birth, he returned to [[Dublin]] where, following his participation in the [[Easter Rising]], John MacBride was court-martialed by the British and executed in May 1916.<ref name="MakingMartyrs">{{Cite book |last=McCarthy |first=Mark |url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-62905-6.pdf |title=Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland |date=2018 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-3-319-62905-6 |editor1-last=Outram |editor1-first=Quentin |page=171 |chapter=Making Irish Martyrs: The Impact and Legacy of the Execution of the Leaders of the Easter Rising, 1916 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-62905-6 |lccn=2017947721 |editor2-last=Laybourn |editor2-first=Keith |editor2-link=Keith Laybourn}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=McEvoy |first=Dermot |date=18 April 2021 |title=Arbour Hill, Dublin's forgotten memorial to the men of 1916 |work= |publisher=Irish Central |url=https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/arbour-hill-dublin-leaders-1916-easter-rising |access-date=6 November 2022}}</ref><ref>Jordan Anthony J.  ''The Yeats Gonne MacBride Triangle'' (Westport Books 2000) pp.&nbsp;49–104</ref>

MacBride's first language was [[French language|French]], and he retained, or, as some would claim, affected, a French accent in the English language for the rest of his life.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dungan |first1=Myles |title=Speaking ill of the dead |date=2007 |publisher=New Island Books|page=156}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Delaney |first1=Eamon |title=An Accidental Diplomat |date=2001 |publisher=New Island Books |page=391}}</ref><ref name="Ireland, a Television History">{{Citation|title=Ireland – A Television History – Part 10 of 13 – 'Civil War 1921–1923'|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxp9OVvqDuE|language=en|access-date=28 August 2019|archive-date=29 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229061217/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxp9OVvqDuE&list=PL-NlJbmY3woh0SDUIy2ION2-DWyoz8oxY&index=11|url-status=live}}</ref> MacBride first studied at the Jesuit [[Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague]], and remained in Paris until his father's execution by the British for his involvement in the 1916 [[Easter Rising]], when he was sent to school at Mount St Benedict's, [[Gorey]], [[County Wexford]] in Ireland, and briefly at the [[Downside School]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://craanfordmonaseedhollyfort.com/mount-st-benedict|title = Mount St Benedict – Craanford Monaseed Hollyfort}}</ref>

MacBride first became involved in politics during the [[1918 Irish general election]] in which he was active for [[Sinn Féin]]. The following year in 1919, aged 15, he lied about his age to join the [[Irish Volunteers]], which fought as part of the [[Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)|Irish Republican Army]], and took part in the [[Irish War of Independence]]. He opposed the 1921 [[Anglo-Irish Treaty]] and was imprisoned by the [[Irish Free State]] during the [[Irish Civil War]].<ref name="mac">{{cite book|last=Jordan|first=Anthony J.|year=1993|pages=26–35|title=Seán MacBride: A Biography|location=Dublin|publisher=Blackwater Press|isbn=0-86121-453-6}}</ref>