Life
1928- [née Leland Hone]; b. India of Irish parents; childhood
Leixlip, Co. Kildare; ed. Alexandra College, Dublin until age 16 when
she left to care for dying mother; wartime in London; returned to Dublin
1959; poems first published in 1960s; novels Girl on a Bicycle (1977); That London Winter
(1981); The House (1984); There We Have Been (1989); fnd.
Cyphers with Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Macdara Woods and Pearse Hutchinson;
m. Michael Bardwell, living nr. Kilkenny; period studying Ancient History
at London Univ.; sep. and moved to Wexford with Finton McIahlan, and separated
again; six children; radio and stage plays; member of Aosdána;
lives in Sligo. ATT OCIL DIL
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Works
Poetry, The Mad Cyclist (Dublin: New Writers Press 1970),
20pp. [ltd. edn. 300]; The Fly and the Bed Bug (Dublin: Beaver
Row Press 1984); Dostoevsky’s Grave (Dublin: Daedalus 1991);
The White Beach: New and Selected Poems, 1960-1998 (Knockevin:
Salmon Publishing 1998), 115pp.
Novels, Girl on a Bicycle (Dublin: Irish Writers Co-operative 1977); That London Winter (Dublin: Irish Writers Co-operative 1981); The House (Brandon 1984); There We Have Been (Dublin: Attic 1989); Leland Bardwell, Mother to a Stranger (Belfast: Blackstaff 2002), 186pp.
Short stories, Different Kinds of Love (Dublin: Attic 1987), trans. into German by Ilse Bessen Berger (Berlin: Verlag Ullstein 1991).
Plays, Thursday; Open Ended Prescription [both unpublished] ; radio plays, The Revenge of Constance; Just Another Killing; also a musical on Edith Piaf.
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Notes
Anthologies: Edmund Lenihan, ed., Ferocious Irish Women
(Cork: Mercier 1991) and Katie Donovan, A. N. Jeffares, and Brendan Kennelly,
eds., Ireland’s Women (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1994).
COPAC lists Different kinds of (1987); Dostoevsky's grave: selected poems (1991); The fly and the bedbug (1984); Girl on a bicycle : a novel (1977); The house (1984); The mad cyclist (1970); Mother to a stranger (2002); That London winter (1981); There we have been (1989); The white beach new and selected poems 1960-1998 (1998); Ed., Borderlines: poems by South Ulster youth (1989); Borderlines 2: poems by young people in the border area (1994); Borderlines 3: poems by young people in the Irish border region (2000)
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)