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Wild Irish Women

Wild Irish Women: Marie-Louise O’Murphy

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
October / November 2019

October 1, 2019 by 1 Comment

a.k.a. Marie-Louise O’Murphy de Boisfailly, Morphy, Morphi, Mademoiselle de Murph, La Belle Morphise, Louison, Madame la Countess de Beaufranchet d’Ayat, Mme Lenormand de la Gravière Flaghac, O’Murphy Lenormand, Mme Dumont, “Murphy,” and… Our Lady of the Potatoes En quels terms en êtes-vous avec la vielle coquette? In English: What terms are you on with the old … [Read more...] about Wild Irish Women: Marie-Louise O’Murphy

Wild Irish Women: Chicago May

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
August / September 2019

August 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

Belle of New York publicity photo.

“How hard Ireland was on the women who could not fit in – the wild ones, the ones who had to get out, seeming emigrants but actual exiles.” – Nuala O’Faolain Chicago May wasn’t from Chicago and, in fact, spent little time there, but the name somehow suited her. May Duignan was born in 1871 in the remote county of Longford in the ancient world that was 19th-century Ireland. Her … [Read more...] about Wild Irish Women: Chicago May

Wild Irish Women: A Most Sorrowful Mystery

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
May / June 2019

May 1, 2019 by 2 Comments

Oh! star of Erin, queen of tears, Black clouds have beset thy birth, And your people die like morning stars, That your light may grace the earth. – "Stars of Freedom," 1981 By IRA volunteer Bobby Sands, M.P. H-Block, Long Kesh Prison Camp ℘℘℘ Watching Bobby Sands die in 1981, much of the world realized, finally, that the young IRA soldier and hunger striker was a … [Read more...] about Wild Irish Women: A Most Sorrowful Mystery

Wild Irish Women: Isadora Duncan

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
March / April 2019

March 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

Isadora with her dancers, The Isadorables.

An American pioneer of dance and an important figure in both the arts and history, Isadora Duncan was known as the “Mother of Modern Dance.” ℘℘℘ "Sans Limites" Oh, body swayed to music, Oh, brightening glance. How can we know the dancer from the dance?" – William Butler Yeats, "Among School Children"   "She was a flame sheath of flesh made for dancing." – Carl … [Read more...] about Wild Irish Women: Isadora Duncan

Wild Irish Women:
Louise Mohan Bryant

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
January / February 2019

December 22, 2018 by 1 Comment

John Reed and Louise Bryant circa 1915.

It took a movie, 1981’s Reds, to both lift Louise Bryant from obscurity and reduce her to the sniveling acolyte of American communist John Reed, Annie Hall in a babushka. Wrong. For all her (many) faults, Louise Bryant was always her own woman – a fearless journalist, activist, suffragette, and talented writer. She was also reckless, with a compulsive need to court danger, and … [Read more...] about Wild Irish Women:
Louise Mohan Bryant

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