Clodagh Finn: Ireland’s singing star who saved lives during Second World War

As anti-refugee sentiment is being stoked around the country, is there a better time to remind ourselves of the Irish people who risked their lives to save others?

Delia Murphy Kiernan. Picture courtesy of Delia's nephew, Leo Cullen, and his wife, Carole.

Joseph O’Connor’s new book, My Father’s House, opens with an electrifying account of how Delia Murphy Kiernan drove the Irish ambassador’s car through Nazi-occupied Rome — and ultimately through a closed gate — so that an escaped prisoner of war could get the medical attention he urgently needed.