Stella Durand
Stella Durand is the author of several books, including Through the Year with the Irish Saints, Dove of White Flame and Drumcliffe: The Church of Ireland Parish in its North Sligo Setting, and her first one for us, A Treasury Of Money-Saving Tips: Living For Less To Help Save The Planet.
Stella Durand was born Stella L’Estrange, in 1942 in Dublin to a Sligo family, and spent her childhood in the war and post-war years, thoroughly used to thriftiness. She studied Philosophy, Theology, English and Nutrition. She was ordained as a Church of Ireland minister and was Rector of Kiltegan Group for seventeen and a half years. and has had a life-long interest in nutritional medicine.
After some years of teaching in London, she married a Church of Ireland clergyman (now deceased), and is the mother of four now adult children, and has five grandchildren. She has had a long time of learning how to bring up a sizeable family on less than half of an average income. She taught English, Theology, Music and Yoga. She has been a healthy vegetarian for 27 years, for a variety of reasons – health. unhappiness with factory farming, because using land to grow crops rather than raise animals will feed more people and do more to alleviate world hunger, and lastly for spiritual reasons as she belongs to a religion that states that God is Love. She plays the ‘cello and piano, and a bit of guitar, and loves reading, poetry, flowers, art and music.
