Dance Of The Tragic Heroines

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Hephzibah House
Publisher Place:
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: First Edition

Description: 336 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. This Traces Six Generations Of Australian Women Searching For Love

Publishers Description: Dancing with the gods- the making of a hero. -A true story of Irene Gleeson’s heritage. With courage gleaned from corroboree grounds of outback Australia, to Balmoral beach –Tea-dances; past the Trocadero ballroom with US marines, to Campsie dance-classes, -to Wiggles on Dee Why Beach and onto funeral dirges in the shadow of the Sudan Mountains; -Irene Gleeson daily faces death as she rescues 1000's of African orphans from rebels and witchcraft. What genes did she inherit from her Aboriginal great-grandmother, her mixed race grandmother, her half Irish mother and Swede American father that gave Irene the empathy and the tenacity for this role? What spiritual influences pervaded the heaven-lies causing good and evil in the successive generations? This autobiography 'Dance of the Tragic Heroines' traces six generations of Australian women searching for love in all the wrong places. In May 2010 Irene Gleeson received the medal for the Officer of the Order of Australia for service to international relations, particularly through sustained aid for children affected by war and HIV/AIDS in north Uganda. She started the organisation CHILDCARE Kitgum Servants [now Irene Gleeson Foundation ]providing humanitarian work for 20 years with African orphans and continues to live in Kitgum Uganda Africa. The writing style is raw, real, and colloquial. The book is a fast paced drama which covers all the gamut of human emotion and is a saga covering from the 1860's to 2000's The historicity of this book and its incidental detailed social customs adds to its significance. A spiritual dialogue between devils demons and God occur in significant stages of the various lives adding another dimension to this saga. Snippets- Edie, chose her love for a white man Tom being cursed by her tribal elders and abandoned by her tribe. Jessie May -a half-caste spent many years in a cruel convent boarding school until old enough to be a maid in Sydney. A stunning beauty, Jessie loved Boy but he didn’t return from Gallipoli. A cruel Irish man married her. – street angel,- home devil Her daughter Cynthia, -a movie-star type beauty caught up in the romance of American Sailors in World War II. Her fantasies ruled her life. -outworked in the wonderful dances and the movies. Irene was conceived, and the Swede US sailor dad abandoned them both. Unwed mothers were social out-casts A spunky lass Cynthia reared her baby with family help. Strange marriages followed plus many children. Irene raised them as her mother lost touch with reality. Child abuse in all forms filled the children's lives Brad, the love of Irene’s life married her and for many years stability reigned. A tawdry affair ruined everything, sending Irene ‘dancing with multiple gods’ Irene’s grand-daughter ‘Jessie May Joy was born in 2003. This darling grand-daughter dances to Wiggles- completing 6 Generations of Australian Women -Jessie May –to Jessie May -110 years ################## In 2009 Irene Hephzibah Gleeson A.O. was awarded the Officer of the Order of Australia The Citation is For service to international relations, particularly through sustained aid for children affected by war and HIV/AIDS in north Uganda She wrote to CKS supporters, concerning this honour, “I will receive the medal in a ceremony at Government House in Sydney in May 2010- in your place, representing you, as without your love and practical help, I could achieve little. All humanity is interconnected by our universal right to food, shelter, medicine and other God given resources on this planet. .. Thousands of children, live and thrive, can laugh and dream, and develop their skills ..I pray God blesses you and your loved ones richly, beyond your imaginings. Love from Dame Irene...[or General Grandmum Irene.] She lives at IRENE GLEESON FOUNDATION at ‘Victory Centre‘ Kitgum UGANDA Africa

ISBN: 9780646564104