Following the publication in January of Brendan Malone: The Last Fenian, former PoemAlley member, actress/playwright, poet and novelist Marina Julia Neary further taps into her East European/Irish heritage with her latest historical work, Martyrs and Traitors: A Tale of 1916, setting the record straight on Bulmer Hobson, the unfairly maligned patriot, and how he and his actions were really understood by his contemporaries during the Easter Rising. Marina will elaborate on the origins of her book, her passion for history and her creative process at the Ferguson Library in Stamford, CT this Saturday. 
As with her past projects assaying the class disparities and exploitation of Victorian London and the battlefields and intrigue of the Crimean War (Wynfield's Kingdom, 2009; Wynfield's War, 2010), Neary continues to weave fictional characters with pivotal events and figures to craft period pastiches infused with an uncompromisingly visceral texture and holistic characterization free of the hageographic depictions of standard historical accounts.
Similarly, her stage production "Lady With a Lamp: An Untold Story of Florence Nightingale" (2009), performed live regionally by herself and her husband, Walt, was highly-praised for its unique portrayal of Nightingale as a complex, real human being, rather than as a two-dimensional "angel of mercy", and was performed as a benefit for The Wyatt Foundation.
Her poetry has appeared in Alimentum, The Recorder and First Edition in the United Kingdom. She is currently an ongoing contributor covering entertainment for the Norwalk Beat, a Connecticut-based leisure publication.
Find out more about Marina and her various projects at http://mjneary.webs.com/; readers and fellow writers can contact her at M_J_Neary@hotmail.com.
When:
Saturday, November 5, 2-3:30 pm
Where:
Third Floor Auditorium
The Ferguson Library
One Public Library Plaza
Stamford, CT 06904
Phone/Website: 203-323-4153/www.fergusonlibrary.org
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