Alice Milligan centre stage

Catherine Morris has constructed a striking multi-layered account of prolific dramatist and political activist Alice Milligan writes Hilary Pyle


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Alice Milligan was little more than a name to me when I first encountered her – visually – many years ago. AE had referred to her ambiguously as ‘the wild tram-dwelling sheeogue of the North’, and here was the elvine countenance of the aging woman looking up out of the canvas intensely, appealingly, the restless hands gripping the arms of the chair she was sitting in, her body draped in the sombre clothes of mourning, an open book of poems on her lap.

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