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Maureen Dowd

Fighting Irish Girl: Maureen Dowd

By Niall O'Dowd, Publisher
April / May 2010

April 1, 2010 by 2 Comments

Her mother was an Irish rebel, and her father a good cop who could spot a phony a mile away.  These inherited traits turned Maureen Dowd into an award-winning columnist and author. Somewhere in Australia there’s an Irish lad called Rowan McCormick who broke Maureen Dowd’s heart. When she went back in the early 1970s to visit her homestead in County Clare, hard by the … [Read more...] about Fighting Irish Girl: Maureen Dowd

Fighting Irish Girl:
Maureen Dowd

By Niall O'Dowd, Publisher
April / May 2010

April 1, 2010 by 3 Comments

Her mother was an Irish rebel, and her father a good cop who could spot a phony a mile away.  These inherited traits turned Maureen Dowd into an award-winning columnist and author. Somewhere in Australia there’s an Irish lad called Rowan McCormick who broke Maureen Dowd’s heart. When she went back in the early 1970s to visit her homestead in County Clare, hard by the … [Read more...] about Fighting Irish Girl:
Maureen Dowd

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