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  • Hereafter

  • The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara
  • By: Vona Groarke
  • Narrated by: Siobhan Waring
  • Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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Hereafter

By: Vona Groarke
Narrated by: Siobhan Waring
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Summary

A lyrical portrait of a young Irish woman reinventing herself at the turn of the twentieth century in America.

In July 1882, Ellen O'Hara stepped off a ship from the West of Ireland to begin a new life in New York. What she encountered was a world of casual racial prejudice that characterized her as ignorant, dirty, and feckless, the butt of many jokes. From the slim range of jobs available to her she, like, many of her kind, found a position as a domestic servant, working long hours and living in to save on rent and keep. After an unfortunate marriage, Ellen determined to win financial security on her own, and eventually opened a boarding house where her two children were able to rejoin her.

Vona Groarke builds this story from historical fact, drawing from various archives for evidence of Ellen. However, she also considers why lives such as Ellen's seem to leave such a light trace in such records and fills in the gaps with memory and empathetic projection. Ellen—scrappy, skeptical, and straight-talking—is the heroine of Hereafter, whose resilience animates the story and whose voice shines through with vivid clarity. Hereafter is both a compelling account of an incredible figure and a reflection on how one woman's story can speak for more than one life.

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very moving and imaginative

A beautiful lyrical journey very well paced and the length is just right although I was sad to end. A beautiful and successful use of imaginative possibilities combined with factual data. One learns without trying to learn and enjoys because one is drawn in to the life and the times.

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