‘The thing about my mother,’ Finola Finlay tells me with a smile, ‘is that she is a completely unreliable narrator.’ I love Lilian Roberts-Finlay from that moment. Discovering the ‘truth’ has long ago ceased to be part of this treasure hunt. Facts I will take, documents are great, but I’ve…
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52 – Respectable Actresses & Disrespectful Women
How does a respectable girl end up on the stage? At the opening night of the gorgeous Maeve’s House in the Peacock last week, I got talking to some people about Irish women emigrating to New York and the cachet of being an Abbey actress in the 1930s. Was it…