Rosemary Mahoney

Documents the author's danger-ridden voyage by seven-foot skiff down the Egyptian Nile, an endeavor that is challenged by civil unrest, local disapproval about women traveling alone, wild animals, harsh climate, and the unlikely assistance of a kind Muslim sailor.

Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff

Down the Nile

A lively portrait of contemporary Ireland focuses on the roles of its women at a time when change is still in the beginning stages and features interviews with the nation's first female president, an abortion activist, and regulars at a local pub. Reprint.

Irish Women Coming of Age

Whoredom in Kimmage

"In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind....She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity."--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. As part of her research, she spent three months teaching at Tenberken's international training center for blind adults in Kerala, India, an experience that reveals both the shocking oppression endured by the world's blind, as well as their great resilience, integrity, ingenuity, and strength. By living among the blind, Rosemary Mahoney enables us to see them in fascinating close up, revealing their particular "quality of ease that seems to broadcast a fundamental connection to the world." Having read FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO SEE, you will never see the world in quite the same way again.

Dispatches from the World of the Blind

For the Benefit of Those Who See

A study of Irish women taking a more visible role in contemporary society and the obstacles they are facing along the way.

Rosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely sympathy and respect of a Muslim sailor, who provided her with both a seven-foot skiff and a window into the culturally and materially impoverished lives of rural Egyptians. Egyptian women don't row on the Nile, and tourists aren't allowed to for safety's sake. Mahoney endures extreme heat during the day, and a terror of crocodiles while alone in her boat at night. Whether she's confronting deeply held beliefs about non-Muslim women, finding connections to past chroniclers of the Nile, or coming to the dramaticm realization that fear can engender unwarranted violence, Rosemary Mahoney's informed curiosity about the world, her glorious prose, and her wit never fail to captivate.

Heartbreaking and riotously funny by turns, a memoir recounts the summer the author spent as a lonely seventeen-year-old would-be writer with the famous, septuagenarian writer Lillian Hellman, an experience that became an exercise in humiliation and disillusion. Reprint.

One Summer with Lillian Hellman

A Likely Story

Lillian Hellman

The author recounts the summer she spent with the famous septuagenarian writer Lillian Hellman, an experience that became an exercise in humiliation and disillusion

In a series of deeply personal accounts, the author of The Early Arrival of Dreams explores the practice of religious pilgrimage as she recreates the Irish Catholic pilgrimage to Station Island, visits to holy sites in Israel, the Hindu pilgrimage to Varanasi, a trip to Lourdes, and the journey to Santiago de Compostela, among others, and examines the meaning of the pilgrimage in modern life. Reprint.

Rosemary Mahoney

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