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Helen Walsh Folsom was born in Kansas City, Kansas, on a beautiful snowy morning the day after All Hallows Eve on the second floor in the house of her great-grandmother, Lizzie Walsh Smith, Irish immigrant. Helen knew she was partly Irish as she grew up, being both Irish and Scots-Irish, but she never fell in love with the idea until she gained more access to the lively chortling of the Irish music, Irish dance, and Irish actors and characters in movies and theater. Helen published her first book about Ireland, St. Patrick's Secrets: 101 Little-Known Truths and Tales of Ireland, in 2002. She said that at one time or another, nearly every author writes a book with 101 items on a topic, and since she had found so many quirky and fun-filled little facts about Ireland, she definitely wanted to share them. However, as charmed as she has been, Helen also understood the fight against injustices that the Irish people have had to endure for more than seven hundred years. It is not surprising that her next book was Ah, Those Irish Colleens!, published in 2003, which helps to explain the history of Ireland as seen from the women who affected it. The book covers two thousand years of Irish history and features thirteen women who, whether deliberately or for a lark, created the destiny of the tiny isle and its people. The book was listed for several years on the best-seller list of the former Irish Books and Media. With her book, Fianna: The Dark Web of the Brotherhood, Helen developed characters that, to her, represent the different types of Irish people--strong and knowledgeable, smart and stubborn, but always with a flair of independence. She also reflects this strongly in her most recent book, Brandeen, In the Shadow of Captain Moonlight, where the heroine has to be independent, strong-willed, and brave to save her family and not reveal the true identity of Captain Moonlight even though it might mean her life!
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