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Mairéad Farrell: A Fanatic Heart

On March 6, 1988, in the shadow of the rock of Gibraltar, British Special Air…

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Nora Joyce: The Girl from Galway

Nora Barnacle was 20 when she arrived in Dublin and met James Joyce in 1904….

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Lola Ridge, Poet and Anarchist

“How can you help writing about something you feel intensely?” Ireland may have more poets…

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Constance Smith: A Hollywood Tragedy
blogIn This Issue 2022Wild Irish Women

Constance Smith: A Hollywood Tragedy

By Rosemary RogersMar 25, 20228 min read
“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, […]
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The Agitator: Leonora O’Reilly
Summer 2021 IssueWild Irish Women

The Agitator: Leonora O’Reilly

By Rosemary Rogers

Summer 2021
Sep 9, 20217 min read
“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 […]
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Lady Augusta Gregory
2021January February 2021 IssueWild Irish Women

Lady Augusta Gregory

By Rosemary Rogers

December/ January 2021
Sep 7, 202115 min read
“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 […]
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Wild Irish Women: More Sinned Against Than Sinning
ArchiveMarch April 2020 IssueTop StoriesWild Irish Women

Wild Irish Women: More Sinned Against Than Sinning

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
March / April 2020
Mar 1, 202013 min read
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 […]
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Wild Irish Women: Madame Bluebell
ArchiveDecember January 2020 IssueHistory ArchivesIssuesWild Irish Women

Wild Irish Women: Madame Bluebell

By Rosemary Rogers, Contributor
December/January 2020
Dec 1, 201911 min read
Ladies: who among us hasn’t at least briefly entertained the fantasy of having Catherine Deneuve portray you in the movie of your life? Okay, even if that’s not the direction […]
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Wild Irish Women: Marie-Louise O’Murphy
History ArchivesOctober November 2019 IssueWild Irish Women

Wild Irish Women: Marie-Louise O’Murphy

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
October / November 2019
Oct 1, 201912 min read
a.k.a. Marie-Louise O’Murphy de Boisfailly, Morphy, Morphi, Mademoiselle de Murph, La Belle Morphise, Louison, Madame la Countess de Beaufranchet d’Ayat, Mme Lenormand de la Gravière Flaghac, O’Murphy Lenormand, Mme Dumont, “Murphy,” […]
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