Wild Irish Women Archive
Lola Ridge, Poet and Anarchist
“How can you help writing about something you feel intensely?” Ireland may have more poets…
The Uncrowned Queen Of Ireland
— Well I let her bawl away, to her heart’s content Kitty O’Shea and the…
The Life And Adventures of Kit Cavanagh
How the search for her missing husband turned this Irish wife and mother into a…
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Wild Irish Women:Saint Brigid – Mary of the Gaels
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 […]
Wild Irish Women: Rita Hayworth, the Ravishing and Ravished Redhead
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 […]
Wild Irish Women: Carmel Snow, the Fashionista
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 […]
What You Didn’t Know About Typhoid Mary
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 […]
Wild Irish Women: The Reporter Who Wouldn’t Go Away
Dorothy is Back! Dorothy Kilgallen was a TV and radio star, a columnist who wrote about theater and film, the rich and famous, but more than anything, she was a crime […]
Wild Irish Women: Mother Jones
Irish-born American labor leader Mother Jones was once known as the “most dangerous woman in America.” The editors of the socially-conscious magazine Mother Jones, explaining the woman Mother Jones to their […]