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Wild Irish Women Archive

Constance Smith: A Hollywood Tragedy

“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.”   Maybe she had too many gifts:  she …
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Wild Irish Women: Leonora O’Reilly

“I am not going to give you any taffy!” The charismatic and powerful public speaker who …
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Lady Augusta Gregory

“The Greatest Living Irishwoman” – George Bernard Shaw Writer, playwright, folklorist, and co-founder of The Abbey Theatre, …
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Deirdre O’Connell’s Fanatic Heart
June July 2018 IssueTop StoriesWild Irish Women

Deirdre O’Connell’s Fanatic Heart

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
June / July 2018
May 9, 201814 min read
The Bronx girl who changed the face of Irish theater. An enigma and a shapeshifter, she changed her first name each time her life entered a new incarnation. Baptized Eleanor, she was […]
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Wild Irish Women: “Hello, Suckers!”
April May 2018 IssueHistory ArchivesTop StoriesWild Irish Women

Wild Irish Women: “Hello, Suckers!”

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
April / May 2018
Feb 28, 201812 min read
Singer, showgirl, and queen of the speakeasy during Prohibition, Mary Guinan was a genuine Irish American wild woman. Larger (and louder) than life, she had an even bigger heart.  ℘℘℘ […]
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Wild Irish Women: Saint Brigid – Mary of the Gaels
ArchiveFebruary March 2018 IssueHistory ArchivesTop StoriesWild Irish Women

Wild Irish Women: Saint Brigid – Mary of the Gaels

By Rosemary Rogers, Contributor
February / March 2018
Jan 29, 201810 min read
A nun, abbess, and founder of several monasteries, Brigid of Kildare was a woman who defied authority, possessed great strength of will and determination, and whose cheerful giving of food […]
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Wild Irish Women: Rita Hayworth, the Ravishing and Ravished Redhead
December January 2018 IssueTop StoriesWild Irish Women

Wild Irish Women: Rita Hayworth, the Ravishing and Ravished Redhead

By Rosemary Rogers, Contributor
December / January 2018
Dec 1, 201712 min read
The tragic star who burned too bright but always gave the loveliest light.  Her mother, the improbably named Volga, was an ex-Ziegfeld Girl, born to a printer, Allynn Hayworth, and […]
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Wild Irish Women: Carmel Snow, the Fashionista
October November 2017 IssueTop StoriesWild Irish Women

Wild Irish Women: Carmel Snow, the Fashionista

By Rosemary Rogers, Contributor
October / November 2017
Oct 1, 201712 min read
One of the most extraordinary fashion editors of all time was an immigrant from Ireland.  The Irish don’t spring to mind when discussing fashionistas, women such as Anna Wintour or […]
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What You Didn’t Know About Typhoid Mary
August September 2017 IssueWild Irish Women

What You Didn’t Know About Typhoid Mary

By Rosemary Rogers, Contributor
Aug 1, 201712 min read
She was the original Patient Zero, a healthy and asymptomatic carrier of a deadly plague. Baptized in Ireland in 1869 as Mary Mallon, she was re-baptized in America as Typhoid […]
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