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Wild Irish Women

The Star of County Down

By Rosemary Rogers

December 7, 2022 by Leave a Comment

‘In Banbridge Town in the County Down One morning last July, From a boreen green came a sweet colleen, And she smiled as she passed me by.' What is absolutely, positively true about Greer Garson is that she was born Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson to George and Nina Garson. From the beginning of her acting career until her death in 1996, she maintained her birthplace was … [Read more...] about The Star of County Down

The Lady From Chicago & The Pound Note

By Rosemary Rogers

Fall 2022

October 18, 2022 by Leave a Comment

Her likeness appears on a banknote and in portraits by famous artists. Who was Lady Lavery Women rarely have their faces on currency. Except, of course, for the recently departed Queen Elizabeth II who was on the currency of Great Britain and her colonies for over 70 years and, until recently, showed no sign of retiring or expiring.  In 1928, Ireland, too, cast a woman on … [Read more...] about The Lady From Chicago & The Pound Note

Constance Smith: A Hollywood Tragedy

By Rosemary Rogers

March 25, 2022 by 3 Comments

“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.”   Maybe she had too many gifts:  she was a great beauty with a quick intellect; she could act, sing and, with little effort, was “discovered” and groomed for Hollywood stardom. In the early 1950s, she was a newcomer at 20th Century Fox, deemed so promising, she landed a plum showcase –  a presenter at the 1952 … [Read more...] about Constance Smith: A Hollywood Tragedy

Wild Irish Women: Leonora O’Reilly

By Rosemary Rogers

Summer 2021

September 9, 2021 by

“I am not going to give you any taffy!” The charismatic and powerful public speaker who pushed for equal pay for equal work, better labor standards and overall empowerment for women , is profiled by Rosemary Rogers. Leonora O’Reilly was born in 1870 to parents driven out of Ireland by the potato famine only to live in poverty in New York’s Lower East Side. Her father … [Read more...] about Wild Irish Women: Leonora O’Reilly

Wild Irish Women: More Sinned Against Than Sinning

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
March / April 2020

March 1, 2020 by 1 Comment

Pilloried by the press and railroaded to prison, she still managed to sail into the sunset. During the summer of 1965 in the East Bronx, the collective grief in Saint Raymond’s convent was almost palpable. The nuns learned that one of their students, a former Good Irish Catholic Girl, had brought shame on them and the rest of the tribe. Alice Crimmins was now fodder for … [Read more...] about Wild Irish Women: More Sinned Against Than Sinning

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