Helen Litton
Helen is a great-niece of Commandant Edward Daly (commander of the First Battalion in the Four Courts during the Easter Rising, 1916), and of Kathleen Daly, wife of Tom Clarke, one of the leaders of the Rising. She has written biographies of Edward Daly (2013) and Tom Clarke (2014) for the O’Brien Press series ‘Sixteen Lives’, and from these she has developed talks on both Daly and Clarke, and on Kathleen Clarke, herself a political activist and first woman Lord Mayor of Dublin. Over the last eighteen months she has given radio and television interviews and written a number of articles, as well as providing assistance to researchers who want to know more about the Clarke or Daly families. Helen is a member of the Irish Labour Party (Dublin Bay South constituency). She sings with an all-woman choir, Diva Voces, under the direction of Ruaidhrí Ó Dálaigh. She is a member of Concerned Relatives of Signatories of the Proclamation, who have been fighting to preserve the battlefield site of Moore Street and its surrounding lanes, under threat from developers. Born in Dublin in 1947, Helen O’Sullivan Litton was educated in Muckross Park, Donnybrook, and University College Dublin (BA 1968, MA 1970). Married to Frank, with two children and two grandchildren, she recently retired from thirty-five years of working as a freelance in publishing, principally as an editor and indexer. (HelenLitton.com)
