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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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Belle of New York publicity photo.
August September 2019 IssueHistory ArchivesWild Irish Women

Wild Irish Women: Chicago May

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
August / September 2019
Aug 1, 201912 min read
“How hard Ireland was on the women who could not fit in – the wild ones, the ones who had to get out, seeming emigrants but actual exiles.”– Nuala O’Faolain […]
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Wild Irish Women: A Most Sorrowful Mystery
History ArchivesMay June 2019 IssuePolitics ArchivesWild Irish Women

Wild Irish Women: A Most Sorrowful Mystery

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
May / June 2019
May 1, 201913 min read
Oh! star of Erin, queen of tears, Black clouds have beset thy birth, And your people die like morning stars, That your light may grace the earth. – “Stars of […]
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Isadora with her dancers, The Isadorables.
ArchiveMarch April 2019 IssueTop StoriesWild Irish Women

Wild Irish Women: Isadora Duncan

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
March / April 2019
Mar 1, 201913 min read
An American pioneer of dance and an important figure in both the arts and history, Isadora Duncan was known as the “Mother of Modern Dance.” “Sans Limites” Oh, body swayed […]
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Wild Irish Women: Louise Mohan Bryant
History ArchivesJanuary February 2019 IssueWild Irish Women

Wild Irish Women: Louise Mohan Bryant

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
January / February 2019
Dec 22, 201812 min read
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. […]
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Wild Irish Women: Dr. James Barry
History ArchivesNovember December 2018 IssueWild Irish Women

Wild Irish Women: Dr. James Barry

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
November / December 2018
Nov 1, 201810 min read
The famous British Army surgeon was actually an Irish woman. ℘℘℘ Dr. James Barry was born in County Cork as Margaret Anne Bulkley, the daughter of Jeremiah and Mary-Ann (neé […]
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Wild Irish Women: Touched by Fire
Music ArchivesSeptember October 2018 IssueTop StoriesWild Irish Women

Wild Irish Women: Touched by Fire

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
September / October 2018
Sep 1, 201812 min read
Sinéad rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra. She will release a new album under a new name, Magda Davitt, in […]
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