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Who inspired W.B. Yeats efforts to foster Irish nationalism?

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Yeats's efforts to foster Irish nationalism were inspired for years by Maud Gonne, an Irish patriot for whom he had a hopeless passion and to whom he repeatedly and fruitlessly proposed marriage.

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