Famous Irish Nationalist, feminist and poet who plays a part in my novel, 'Daughters of the Famine Road.'

I came across her name when I worked in Northampton. Some of my students came to college from the Caroline Chisholm School. I didn't know...

Jane Leary was one of one hundred and ten girls sent out to Australia from Skibbereen Workhouse during the Irish Famine of 1845-50. A...