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Such female talent typically came with the price of mandatory reliance on male record producers, arrangers, and songwriters for female stars of the time. It was not expected of women to know what was best for them. Springfield thought differently and…

Graduate in Irish and a member of the Gaelic League. She worked as a teacher, civil servant, and may have been the first women radio announcer in Europe. She wrote Irish language textbooks for schools, short stories, and many plays. In 1964, her…