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The Troubled Life of Maeve Brennan

In her new biography of Maeve Brennan, Angela Bourke includes two photographs taken around 1948. In one, Brennan, a delicate-looking young woman dressed in black, is sitting in front of the fire looking over her shoulder, a cigarette in her left hand. With her hair fixed tightly in a bun and her lips pursed, she looks like a fashion model. ....

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The Troubled Life of Maeve Brennan - Irish America

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The Troubled Life of Maeve Brennan

Maeve with her beloved labrador, Bluebell, in East Hampton, New York in 1962.
By Elizabeth Toomey, Contributor
In her new biography of Maeve Brennan, Angela Bourke includes two photographs taken around 1948. In one, Brennan, a delicate-looking young woman dressed in black, is sitting in front of the fire looking over her shoulder, a cigarette in her left hand. With her hair fixed tightly in a bun and her lips pursed, she looks like a fashion model.
In another photo from the same shoot, Maeve is standing by the fire, one hand on the mantelpiece, the other still holding a cigarette. In this one, which appears on the cover of the biography, she is looking directly at the camera, proud and slightly threatened. As Bourke put it recently, “It’s as if she’s saying, `I have every right to be here but who the hell are you? ” ....

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Academic Feminist and Founding Member of Cumann na mBan « The Celtic League

Academic Feminist and Founding Member of Cumann na mBan
Agnes O’Farrelly (1874-1951) pictured was a pioneering academic, feminist, professor of Irish at University College Dublin (UCD), Irish language novelist and a founding member of Cumann na mBan, the Irish nationalist women’s organisation. She presided at the inaugural meeting of Cumann na mBan in 1914.
O’Farrelly was an active campaigner in promoting equal opportunities for women in university education and was appointed a lecturer in Modern Irish at UCD in 1909. She was one of several university-educated female graduates to play key roles in various cultural nationalist organisations, most notably Conradh na Gaeilge (Gaelic League). In doing so, she became acquainted with Eoin MacNeill and Douglas Hyde. ....

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