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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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2021-11-30


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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2021-05-02

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Irish-American actress Ada Rehan was born 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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2021-04-22

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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'.

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2021-02-25

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 & https://t.co/JFPP1zKPuu

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