{"id":2653,"date":"2018-07-02T13:11:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T12:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2020-09-26T11:03:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T10:03:27","slug":"the-stars-are-our-only-warmth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/2018\/07\/the-stars-are-our-only-warmth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stars Are Our Only Warmth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the title of a memoir written by Alice with well-known journalist Catherine Cleary which will be published by O\u2019Brien Press on 1<sup>st<\/sup> October 2018.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the 1970s Alice Leahy left nursing to work and live in a Dublin homeless shelter. This is the story of her life and life choices, from an empowering childhood, with free run of a big house estate in Tipperary to her invaluable work with some of Ireland\u2019s most marginalised people, at The Alice Leahy Trust, in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Alice has always been an important voice in the debate around homelessness in Ireland. An insider with an outsider\u2019s eye, this is the memoir of an untypical life from a radical humanitarian who has always believed that anything is possible.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars Are Our Only Warmth tells powerful truths about Irish life and the people who taught Alice what it is to be alive in this world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/alice-leahy-s-memoir-reviewed-a-soldier-in-the-service-of-love-1.3722699\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Irish Times Review<\/a><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;In The Stars Are Our Only Warmth readers meet an undaunted \u2013 but private \u2013 warrior&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obrien.ie\/the-stars-are-our-only-warmth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">obrien.ie\/the-stars-are-our-only-warmth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the title of a memoir written by Alice with well-known journalist Catherine Cleary which will be published by O\u2019Brien Press on 1st October 2018. In the 1970s Alice Leahy left nursing to work and live in a Dublin homeless shelter. This is the story of her life and life choices, from an empowering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/2018\/07\/the-stars-are-our-only-warmth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Stars Are Our Only Warmth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}