Wild Irish Women Archive
Kate Gleason: A Century Ahead of Her Time
Even in recent decades, women engineers have at times felt like they’re trying to make…
Wild Irish Women | Nell McCafferty
“You never knew what she would say next.” Though she stood just under 4’11”, Nell…
Mairéad Farrell: A Fanatic Heart
On March 6, 1988, in the shadow of the rock of Gibraltar, British Special Air…
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The Star of County Down
‘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, […]
The Lady From Chicago & The Pound Note
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 […]
Constance Smith: A Hollywood Tragedy
“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, […]
The Agitator: Leonora O’Reilly
“You men say to us: ‘Your place is in the home,’ yet as children we must come out of the home at 11, at 13, and at 15 years of […]
Lady Augusta Gregory
“The Greatest Living Irishwoman” – George Bernard Shaw Writer, playwright, folklorist, and co-founder of The Abbey Theatre, Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory, née Isabella Augusta Persse, (born March 15, 1852, Roxborough, County […]
Wild Irish Women: More Sinned Against Than Sinning
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 […]