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Mairéad Farrell: A Fanatic Heart

By Rosemary Rogers

Winter 2024

January 10, 2025 by Leave a Comment

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On March 6, 1988, in the shadow of the rock of Gibraltar, British Special Air Services (SAS) gathered behind IRA members Sean Savage, Daniel McCann, and Mairéad Farrell as they were ascending the rock. When the three victims, all unarmed, turned around, saw the soldiers, and saw their guns, they put their hands up, the universal signal of surrender and “for the love of God, … [Read more...] about Mairéad Farrell: A Fanatic Heart

The Life And Adventures of Kit Cavanagh

By Rosemary Rogers

November 13, 2023 by 2 Comments

How the search for her missing husband turned this Irish wife and mother into a daring and dauntless soldier.She was born Christian Cavanagh in 1667, although throughout her life, she changed names and identities with particular zest. Known mostly as Kit Cavanagh or Christopher Welsh, she dabbled in surnames that included Welch, Welsh, Jones, Davies, and oddly, Mother … [Read more...] about The Life And Adventures of Kit Cavanagh

The Star of County Down

By Rosemary Rogers

December 7, 2022 by 1 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 Belfast … [Read more...] about The Star of County Down

The Lady From Chicago & The Pound Note

By Rosemary Rogers

Fall 2022

October 18, 2022 by 3 Comments

Her likeness appears on a banknote and in portraits by famous artists.Who was Lady LaveryWomen 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 the … [Read more...] about The Lady From Chicago & The Pound Note

Constance Smith: A Hollywood Tragedy

By Rosemary Rogers

March 25, 2022 by 14 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 Oscar … [Read more...] about Constance Smith: A Hollywood Tragedy

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The composer Arthur Sullivan was born in London to an Irish Italian mother, Mary Coughan and Irish-born father, Thomas Sullivan. Sullivan composed his first anthem at age 8. At age 14, he was awarded a scholarship to the London Academy of Music. Sullivan began a collaboration with W.S. Gilbert to create the comic opera “Thespis.” He would work with Giblert on fourteen light operas in all, including The Pirates of Penzance and the Mikado. Sullivan’s “Irish Symphony” was first performed in March 1866. He wrote it on holiday in Ireland: “As I was jolting home through wind and rain… in an open jaunting-car, the whole first movement of a symphony came into my head with a real Irish flavor about it – besides scraps of the other movements.”

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