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Maureen O'Carroll ( née McHugh; 29 March 1913 – 9 May 1984) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-Central constituency from 1954 to 1957. [1]
Maureen O'Carroll was an acclaimed cellist who played in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and several orchestras internationally. She was also a recording artist, soloist and teacher. Maureen passed away in 2012. In 2019, she was named one of the top 100 Irish Australians of All Time by the Sydney-based Irish Echo newspaper
Oct 14, 2020 · Looking for a cellist memoir? Maureen O’Carroll: A Musical Memoir of an Irish Immigrant Childhood by Maureen and Leora O’Carroll gives us a glimpse into the life of a remarkably talented musical Irish immigrant family in Sydney c.1930-50.
Aug 11, 2020 · A cellist, Maureen O'Carroll, had bravely informed the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's management that there was one item on the programme that she was not prepared to play.
Maureen O'Carroll. ♪ Maureen O'Carroll named one of the top 100 Irish Australians by Irish Echo Australia, June 2014. Whizzes of Oz: Irish success stories in Australia - The Irish Times. ♪ Gifted cellist was also a rebel - The Sydney Morning Herald.
A formidable woman in every respect, Maureen O’ Carroll proceeded to storm the social barricades following her graduation from Galway University in 1935, righting wrongs and fighting injustices. That’s because she was forced to resign her teaching post barely a year later, upon her marriage to Gerard O’Carroll – that was the fuel that ...
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Dec 25, 2023 · A dervish in apron-strings, Maureen O’Carroll was one of the most groundbreaking politicians of her day. In Ireland, she shattered a political glass ceiling that, at the time, came reinforced...
