The Adulterous MuseMaud Gonnes romances with Lucien Millevoye, W. B. Yeats, and John MacBride were carried on with so much drama that every reader will be grateful for the vast documentation that Adrian Fraziers research has unearthed. The rich mixture of politics and sexuality is his muse, and this volume is as inspired as Fraziers brilliant and hilarious biography of George Moore. Gonne seems to have lived for the sake of giving Frazier material. With its

Its verve and musicality

Working as a taxi driver

New English

and a good courage

A popular Irish travel writer

This biography pursues the story of what attracted Maud Gonne to a man like Lucien Millevoye

looks incisively at the practice and history of the author’s profession within Ireland and elsewhere

linguistic origins

Everything starts over again in the New Year

and for the life of Tone himself

seeking out the ghost of his long dead brother

Set against the backdrop of the Church’s dwindling influence in 1970s Ireland and an increased scrutiny of priests’ personal lives