A cracking review in the Irish Indo July 9th by Damian Corless
Category: News
Irish Times and Dublin Review of Books reviews of Helena Molony A Radical Life by Catriona Crowe and Pádraig Yeates
There is a considered and lengthy review of Helena Molony: A Radical Life, 1883-1967 by Pádraig Yeates in July’s Dublin Review of Books.
See http://www.drb.ie/essays/selfless-radical
” a book that has done more to rehabilitate its subject than anything else written over the past half-century.”
” There is no one better qualified to write her life than Nell Regan, who published what Senia Pašeta has described as “a pioneering biographical essay on Molony” in 2001. That was the fruit of a decade’s intermittent research and meant, crucially, that, in Nell’s own words, “I was lucky enough to be doing my initial research at a time when there were still people alive who had known her”, such as Francis Stuart, Louie Coghlan O’Brien and Finian Czira. She was writing about someone who was the proverbial handshake away and a poet’s insight made that link all the more palpable.”
In May, following on from the launch at Liberty Hall, there was a substantial review by Catriona Crowe in the Books section of the Irish Times,
“This first biography of Molony fleshes out our knowledge of this complicated woman and joins a number of other biographies of women activists during these years whose lives are being excavated by a new generation of historians of Irish women, building on the pioneering work of Margaret Ward’s Unmanageable Revolutionaries and Mary Jones’s These Obstreperous Lassies, published in 1983 and 1988. The decade of centenaries has brought a welcome focus on women involved in feminism, nationalism, militarism, pacifism and socialism during the period.”
Podcast of Sunday Miscellany, RTE Radio 1, 30 April 2017
Delighted to have a piece in this broadcast about the first commemoration of Easter 1916. Great timing as it was also the weekend of the launch of Helena Molony: A Radical Life in Liberty Hall.
You can listen to the podcast here
https://www.rte.ie/radio1/sunday-miscellany/programmes/2017/0430/871473-sunday-miscellany-sunday-30-april-2017/?clipid=2472988#2472988
Irish Times article 28 April 2017
Putting Helena Molony back centre-stage in Irish history
Nell Regan on her challenging but rewarding struggle to piece together the fascinating but overlooked life of a radical nationalist, feminist, trade unionist and actor…
free Féile Londubh reading with James Mahon, Fri 28th April
Really looking forward to reading in Ashford, Co Wicklow with James Mahon on flute and uileann pipes. Launch of Féile Londubh, free and all welcome this Friday!
Feile Londubh Launch: Poetry Reading & Music Tickets, Fri, 28 Apr …
Eventbrite – Alchemy Music presents Feile Londubh Launch: Poetry Reading & Music – Friday, 28 April 2017 at Ashford Heritage Centre, Ashford, County
Launch @ 3pm, 28 April 2017, Liberty Hall of Helena Molony: A Radical Life!
All welcome – come along on 3pm, 28 April to Liberty Hall to launch Helena Molony A Radical Life 1883-1967 off into the world.
Delighted that it is taking place in Liberty Hall 100 years on from the date Molony, Rosie Hackett & others marked the first anniversary of the Rising so dramatically. Her name seems to be cropping up all over the place this month between One City One book Echoland and the 1917 Rising anniversary.
Helena Molony: A Radical Life Arlen House
Have books, will launch -end of April, Liberty Hall, watch this space.
Ennis Book Festival
Lovely to be in Ennis last month, reading with Sarah Clancy and in conversation with Carol Drinkwater. Great atmosphere and programme. http://www.ennisbookclubfestival.com/2017-events/2017-programme
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