Marie-Louise (Louison) O’Morphi: Royal Mistress
The life and loves of Marie-Louise O’Morphi (1736-1815) are widely chronicled by historians and other writers. She ranks amongst the “dauntless and daring women of the Gael” whose unorthodox lives became legendary in pushing the boundaries of political, religious, social and cultural limits with varying degrees of fame or notoriety. Louison has been recounted in story telling over time and was dramatised in the 1997 novel Our Lady of the Potatoes. She is profiled in Marian Broderick’s book Wild…