Between Authors Mary McCarthy and Colum McCann, who is also a political activist?
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Mary McCarthy (author) Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American novelist, critic and political activist.
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Colum McCann Colum McCann (born 28 February 1965) is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and now lives in New York. He is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts program at Hunter College, New York with fellow novelists Peter Carey and Tea Obreht, and has visited many universities and colleges all over the world.
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Joseph F. McCormick Joseph Francis McCormick Jr. is a former American political candidate, political activist, transpartisan organizer and innovator, author and public speaker.
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Mary Mooney Mary Mooney (born 1 December 1958) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. She was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency at the 1987 general election. She was Vice-Chairperson of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Women's Rights from 1987 to 1989. She lost her seat at the 1989 general election. She was elected as a local councillor in 1985 for South Inner city area of Dublin City Council. She lost her seat at the 2004 local elections.
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Paul McCarthy (disambiguation) Paul McCarthy (born 1945) is an American contemporary artist.
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Róisín McAliskey Róisín Elizabeth McAliskey (born 1971) is an Irish political activist. She is the daughter of Irish republican activists Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and Michael McAliskey. She is suspected of having been a member of the Provisional IRA.
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Kevin Williamson (writer) Kevin Williamson (born 1961) is a writer, publisher, and activist originally from Caithness. He is a Scottish socialist and republican and was an activist for the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP). He was also the architect of their radical drug policy, which included the legalisation of cannabis and the provision under the National Health Service of free synthetic heroin to addicts under medical supervision to combat the problems of drugs in working class communities. He wrote a regular weekly column, "Rebel Ink", for the Scottish Socialist Voice.
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Kieran McCarthy Kieran McCarthy (born 9 September 1942) was a Northern Ireland politician and member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Strangford for the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI). He served as Assembly chief whip for APNI in the Assembly.
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Mary Matalin Mary Joe Matalin (born August 19, 1953) is an American political consultant well known for her work with the Republican Party. She has served under President Ronald Reagan, was campaign director for George H. W. Bush, was an assistant to President George W. Bush, and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003. Matalin has been chief editor of Threshold Editions, a conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster, since March 2005. She is married to Democratic political consultant James Carville. She appears in the award-winning documentary film "" and also played herself, opposite her husband, James Carville, John Slattery, and Mary McCormack in the short lived HBO series "K Street".
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Inez McCormack Inez McCormack (née Murphy; 28 September 1943 – 21 January 2013) was a Northern Irish trade union leader and human rights activist. She was the first female president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (1999 to 2001), representing the UNISON union. She also successfully campaigned for the inclusion of strong equality and human rights provisions in the Good Friday Agreement, and was a signatory to the MacBride Principles for fair employment.
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Eamonn Melaugh Eamonn Melaugh (born 4 July 1933) is a socialist, campaigner and political activist from Derry. He married Mary (May) McLaughlin in 1956 and they had 4 daughters and 7 sons.
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Kathleen Lynch (politician) Kathleen Lynch (born 7 June 1953) is a former Irish Labour Party politician as Minister of State for Primary Care, Mental Health and Disability from 2011 to 2016. She served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North–Central constituency from 1994 to 1997 and from 2002 to 2016.
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Maryn McKenna Maryn McKenna is an American author and journalist. She has written for the National Geographic, and spoke on antibiotics at TED 2015.
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Marian Walsh Marian Walsh is an American author, consultant, lawyer and former politician. She is a former State Senator in the Massachusetts Senate where she served nine terms, and a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives where she served two terms. She was the first woman to serve in the Massachusetts State House and the State Senate from her district. Walsh began her own consulting and coaching firm upon leaving public office. She also authored "Run", a book about running for political office as well as started a campaign school at the Kennedy Library.
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Mary Fitzpatrick Mary Fitzpatrick is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician and former member of Dublin City Council, representing the Cabra-Glasnevin electoral area. In 2011, prior to the general election she was appointed Fianna Fáil party spokesperson on Housing and Urban Development, despite not being a member of the Oireachtas.
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Mary E.L. Butler Mary E. L. Butler (1874-1920) (Irish: Máire de Buitléir ) was an Irish writer and Irish-language activist.
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Nelson Peery Nelson Peery (June 22, 1923 – September 6, 2015) was an American political activist and author. Peery spent over 60 years in the revolutionary movement, and was active in the Communist Party USA (CP-USA), the Provisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute the Marxist–Leninist Party (POC), the Communist League (CL), the Communist Labor Party (CLP), and the League of Revolutionaries for a New America (LRNA).
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Mary Ann O'Brien Mary Ann O'Brien (born 8 September 1960) is an Irish businesswoman and politician. She is the founder and chairman of Lily O'Brien's Chocolates and in 1997, she founded the Jack and Jill Foundation with her husband Jonathan Irwin, to provide home health care to severely sick babies. It was set up as a direct response to their experience of caring at home for their son Jack, born with severe brain damage in 1996.
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Sidney Czira Sidney Sarah Madge Czira (née Gifford; 3 August 1889 – 15 September 1974), always known in her own time by her pen name John Brennan, was a journalist, broadcaster and writer who worked to revolutionise politics from her schooldays. She was an active member of the revolutionary group Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Ireland) and wrote articles for its newspaper, "Bean na h-Éireann", and for Arthur Griffith's newspaper "Sinn Féin".
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Dana Larsen Dana Albert Larsen (born April 14, 1971) is a Canadian author, politician and cannabis legalization activist.
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Linda McQuaig Linda Joy McQuaig is a Canadian journalist, columnist, non-fiction author and social critic. She is best known for her series of best-selling books that challenge the dominant free-market economic ideology of recent decades. Her books make the case for a more egalitarian distribution of power, income and wealth. The "National Post" newspaper has described McQuaig as "Canada's Michael Moore."
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Mary P. Sinclair Mary P. Sinclair (September 23, 1918 – January 14, 2011) was an American environmental activist and "one of the nation’s foremost lay authorities on nuclear energy and its impact on the natural and human environment".