Mary O'Hara

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Mary O'Hara

Mary O’Hara, the Irish singer who accompanies herself on a small harp, first came into my life in the mid-1950s when John Gielgud asked me if I would advise a young and very talented Dublin girl, not yet known in Britain, about getting an agent... He thought she should try and work for intimate audiences, as I was doing in revue. Mary came to tea with me and sat long at the kitchen table, while she told me about her happy life married to an American poet, Richard Selig, and the concerts she soon hoped to be giving in England. I was beguiled by her unspoilt beauty and the lilt in her voice; she was the epitome of a fictional Irish colleen – exquisite complexion, starry eyes and all the rest....