Clodagh Finnさんのイラストまとめ

#ThroughHerEyes update
Dr Hilda Moriarty (O'Malley) who inspired Kavanagh to write Raglan Road later ran for election after her husband Education Minister Donogh O'Malley died. She missed a seat in Limerick East by 200 votes. I saw this poster of her on https://t.co/mv6FH5jNfg https://t.co/riXhBRATHP

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#otd in 1916 Grace Gifford married Joseph Mary Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol hours before he was executed. She was an artist, caricaturist and costume designer for the Abbey. When jailed after a protest in 1923, she painted the 'Kilmainham Madonna' on her cell wall.

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Frances Sheridan (1724-66) writer and playwright wrote her first novel at 15 after her brothers tutored her secretly in defiance of her father who opposed female education. A comedy of hers inspired her son Richard Brinsley's famous character, Mrs Malaprop.

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Irish-American actress Ada Rehan was born #otd in Limerick in 1857. She emigrated to the US as a child and by the 1880s, critics hailed her as a stage artist without rival. Oscar Wilde and Shaw were admirers while her fans tried to speak and dress like her.

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Marguerite Gardiner (1789-1849) from Tipperary was a writer, journalist and society hostess who married at 15 but escaped a violent marriage to become Countess of Blessington. She documented her friendship with Lord Byron in 'Conversations of Lord Byron'.

#otd in 1785 Ellen Hutchins, Ireland's first female botanist was born. 'I am told,' she wrote in 1807, 'that I have made great progress for the time I have been learning, in a curious and difficult branch, that of marine plants.' See #ThroughHerEyes & https://t.co/JFPP1zKPuu