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Mother's Day is almost here. Though it's always important to celebrate the maternal influences in our lives, Mother's Day provides us with an additional opportunity to say thank you, and show appreciation to the women in our lives.

By the time Judy Garland made her first and only concert appearance in Dublin in July 1951, she had been an international star for more than a decade. She had starred in 27 feature length films, performed on more than 200 radio shows, appeared in hundreds of national and international magazines and newspapers, and recorded more than 70 records and albums. The diminutive songstress, whose voice could pack an emotional wallop equal in intensity to a cosmic collision, arrived in Ireland, land of h...