Book review: Forgotten power couple of Irish literature

Margaret Kelleher has brought this singular couple back to life and shown how in matters of intellectual courage, tenacity, and depth of feeling, they demand to be our contemporaries

Author Margaret Kelleher, chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin, at the launch of her biography 'Mary and Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream' at the The Museum of Literature Ireland. Picture: Mark Stedman

• Mary & Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream
• Margaret Kelleher
• UCD Press, €25