Irish Women in History – Catherine Hayes, The Victorian Pop Star
Catherine Hayes (not to be confused with the murderess of the same name) was born in Limerick, Ireland in 1818. Abandoned by her musician father at age 5, Catherine grew up in poverty with her mother and younger sister. While singing in the garden one day, the purity of twenty-year-old Catherine’s voice was heard by …
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