Sarah Webb I FEEL STRONGLY that all history books written and published from now on should tell both women and men’s stories. We have had many years of history, a few years of herstory – now it is time for ‘ourstory’ – all stories together!
So when Michael O’Brien asked me to write a second book about remarkable Irish people I jumped at the chance. I chose ‘dreamers’ as my theme – we are after all a nation built by dreamers, brave people like Pearse and Markievicz who dreamed of a new Ireland – an Ireland that was independent, equal and free.
He loved rugby but medicine was his first love and he devoted the rest of his working life to helping save lives in Africa. In his daughter Justine’s book, Conversations With My Father, she says: “If decency were measured in stars, then to me, Dad is a galaxy.”I also have huge admiration for Maude Delap, who spent a lifetime studying jellyfish and working out their life cycles. Maude was born in 1866 and as a child moved to Valentia Island, County Kerry with her family.
In the 1890s a group of scientists visited the island and Maude and her sister Connie helped them catch sea creatures in nets, and also took the temperature of the sea. It was the start of Maude’s passion for jellyfish. Born in 1896, like Maude she spent her childhood outside watching nature. And like me, she was a devoted Girl Guide, going on many hikes and camps, which proved brilliant training for her future.
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