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Nov 24, 2021 · That is a roundabout, even misguided, approach to the make-believe of The Uninvited (1944), a Paramount picture based on the novel Uneasy Freehold (1941) by the Irish writer and Republican activist Dorothy Macardle (1889–1958). But The Uninvited is a queer film in more than one sense.
12 quotes from Dorothy Macardle: 'They subordinate the whole to the part. It is no longer life they are celebrating, nor nature, but some crude, fanatical party creed.
As the trust between Macardle and de Valera developed, de Valera asked Macardle to travel to County Kerry to investigate and document what later became known as the Ballyseedy massacre of March 1923, in which a number of unarmed republican prisoners were reported to have been killed in reprisals.
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Mar 30, 2011 · Dorothy Macardle. Brother and sister Roderick and Pamela Fitzgerald flee their busy London lives for the beautiful but stormy Devon coastline. They are drawn to the suspiciously inexpensive Cliff End, feared amongst locals as a place of disturbance and ill omen.
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Dec 14, 2019 · Her book Children of Europe (1949) addressed themes of displacement, harm done to children (“appears immeasurable”) and the need for international solidarity. In preparing this book she ...
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at weakening the IRA by arresting female republican advocates like Dorothy Macardle, Maire Comerford, and Mary Mac Swiney. Though Macardle and others protested their detention by going on a hunger strike, many were held without charge until the end of the civil war in 1923. Writing to the Freeman s Journal the Irish Times, and the Irish Independent
