Maud Gonne, the legendary woman known as the Irish Joan of Arc, left her mark on everyone she met. She famously won the devotion of one of the greatest poets of the age, William Butler Yeats. Born into tremendous privilege, she allied herself with rebels and the downtrodden and openly defied what was at the time the world's most powerful empire. She was an actress, a journalist and an activist for the cause of Irish independence. Ignoring the threat...

Born into a wealthy English family, Rose Dugdale was part of the last crop of debutantes presented to the Queen. But instead of looking for a suitable husband, she embraced radical politics and gave away a chunk of her considerable fourtune. Meanwhile, a war was underway in Northern Ireland. Rose quickly became devoted to the republican cause and, with the IRA man Eddie Gallagher, plotted and executed two of the strangest and most spectacular operations...