Clodagh Finn: Turning family hearsay into history or, in this case, astonishing her-stories
Two women from the same extended family lived lives that could not have been more different — one a celebrated scientist, the other who lived in poverty and suffered great personal loss, yet both are fascinating women whose stories deserve to be told
Dr Anna Joyce Reardon, who was head of the physics department at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina.
Clodagh Finn is a journalist, writer and collector of stories. Her recent book, The Irish in the Resistance, co-authored with John Morgan, shines a light on the forgotten contributions of the Irish who resisted Hitler during WW2.
One was an associate professor with an interest in space travel in the 1940s and 1950s. The other, twice-widowed, struggled through unimaginable loss and poverty to raise six children in Tralee, Co Kerry.
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