The Third Daughter

The Third Daughter begins in 1940s Limerick, where the O’Mara family were merchant princes of the city. The story follows the family fortunes from middle-class comfort to genteel poverty as they moved to Dublin and became part of its literary and theatrical circles in the 1950s and 60s when her father Power O’Mara managed the avant-garde Globe Theatre Company. Eileen’s mother, Joan Follwell, was a glamorous English socialist, becoming a lover of philosopher Bertrand Russell in the 1920s (twenty