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Wild Irish Women:
Louise Mohan Bryant

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
January / February 2019

December 22, 2018 by </a> By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2019-archive/january-february-2019/">January / February 2019</a> 1 Comment

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

Oscar Wilde Play Banned in Russia

By Matthew Skwiat, Contributing Editor
August / September 2015

July 24, 2015 by </a> By Matthew Skwiat, Contributing Editor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2015-archive/august-september-2015/">August / September 2015</a> Leave a Comment

Plans to stage a 1997 play based on Oscar Wilde: “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde” were halted after the Russian government barred the company from accepting any foreign funds for “artistic purposes” according to The New York Times. The much lauded New Drama theater in Moscow was attempting to put on Moises Kaufman’s play with funding from the U.S … [Read more...] about Oscar Wilde Play Banned in Russia

September 19, 1880

The term “boycotting”- a form of non-violent protesting – entered the English language on this day in 1880. Coined by Charles Stewart Parnell in his speech on land tenants at Ennis, he said, “I wish to point out a better way, a more Christian way which will give the lost man an opportunity of repenting. When a man takes a farm from which another has been evicted, you must shun him on the roadside, on the streets, in the shop and even in the place of worship by putting him in a ‘moral Coventry.’ You must show him your detestation of the crime he has committed.”

Wild Irish Women:
Louise Mohan Bryant

Oscar Wilde Play Banned in Russia

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