In the autumn of 2016, I became obsessed with solving a historical mystery surrounding an Irish woman who lived in Moscow’s Hotel Lux in the 1920s. Those who came to the Hotel Lux in the 1920s found a place of hope and revolutionary dreams. These letters confirmed my intuition, revealing to me a hitherto unknown Irish woman who lived at the crossroads of revolutionary history. My journey into the life of a mysterious Irish woman who lived in a remarkable hotel culminated in an unexpected love story. His first book, Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals, is published by Footnote Press.

Source: The Irish Times October 06, 2024 14:00 UTC