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The Little Red Chairs:
A Novel by Edna O’Brien

By Rosemary Rogers, Contributor
April / May 2016

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Edna O’Brien’s acclaimed new novel, her first in a decade, is reviewed. Celts have always believed in an invisible spirit world running parallel to our visible world, a mystical universe that has given Irish storytellers a rich folklore of the supernatural. From this tradition comes the oft-told story (undoubtedly a cautionary tale for impressionable girls) of a handsome … [Read more...] about

The Little Red Chairs:
A Novel by Edna O’Brien

Margaret Higgins Sanger Founder of Planned Parenthood

By Rosemary Rogers, Contributor
August / September 2015

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Continuing her series on Wild Irish Women, Rosemary Rogers profiles Margaret Sanger, who devoted her life to legalizing birth control, and with the help of her sister Ethel, opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. On October 16, 1916, Margaret Sanger opened the doors to a Brooklyn storefront and Planned Parenthood began. The centennial will be celebrated with … [Read more...] about Margaret Higgins Sanger Founder of Planned Parenthood

Eliza Lynch: The Uncrowned
Queen of Paraguay

By Rosemary Rogers, Contributor
October / November 2014

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The Cork-born beauty who was the mistress of Francisco Solano López, president of Paraguay, and is today revered in Paraguay as a national heroine. Ireland’s Potato Famine forced 10-year-old Eliza from her native Cork to France, then to Algeria where she endured a bad but brief marriage to a French doctor whom she later dismissed as “a minor beast.” She left her husband for … [Read more...] about Eliza Lynch: The Uncrowned
Queen of Paraguay