Mary Rose Callaghan

Life
1944- ; b. Dublin, ed. UCD; lives in US and Bray, Co. Wickow with her husband Robert Hogan [q.v.], and also in Bray, Co. Wicklow; novels, Mothers (1982), Confessions of a Prodigal Daughter (1985), The Awkward Girl (1990); biography of Kitty O’Shea, and teenagers book incl. Has Anyone Seen Heather? [q.d]; Emigrant Dreams (Dublin: Poolbeg 1996), 297pp.; The Last Summer (Poolbeg 1997).

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Works
Kitty O’Shea: The Story of Katherine Parnell
, with a preface by Gemma Connor (London: Pandora 1989).

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Criticism
Ann Owens Weekes, ed., Attic Guide to Published Works of Irish Women Literary Writers (Dublin: Attic Press 1993); Katie Donovan, A. N. Jeffares, and Brendan Kennelly, eds., Ireland’s Women (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1994).

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Notes
Kitty O'Shea (1989) is published in a series that includes lives of Charlotte Despard and Countess Markievicz by Margaret Mulvihill and Anne Haverty respectively.

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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)