Life
1866-1902; [‘Ethna Carbery’, pseud. of Anna MacManus, née Johnston];
b. Ballymena, Co. Antrim, a dg. of Robert Johnston, Belfast Fenian, and
Donegal wife, living at Donegall Park area of Belfast; moved to Glencoe,
under Cave Hill; with Alice Milligan under auspices of Workingmen’s Club,
fnd. and ed. Northern Patriot, 1894-97; taken over by McQuinzey,
Dec. 1895; moved on to co-fnd. The Shan Van Vocht, 1896-99, involving
Douglas Hyde, Lionel Johnson, et al.; played part of ‘Eithne the Fair’
in play about St. Patrick, Belfast 1899; m. Seamus MacManus, 1901, a schoolmaster
from Donegal hills who had been freq. contributor; issued The Four
Winds of Erinn (1902), The Passionate Hearts (1903), and In
the Celtic Past ([1904]); moved to Revilinn, on the Eske estuary,
Donegal, where she is buried, the name Ethna Carbery appearing on her
gravestone; poetry later collected with Milligan and MacManus in We
Sang for Ireland (1950). PI DBIV IF DIB DIW
DIH DIL OCIL
Works
The Four Winds of Erinn, with a preface by Seamus MacManus (Dublin:
M. H. Gill 1902; num. edns. to 1934); The Passionate Hearts (Dublin:
M. H. Gill & Son; London: Ibister & Co. 1903), cover-design by
George (AE) Russell; In the Celtic Past (Dublin: M. H. Gill [1904]),
and Do. [another edn.] (Dublin & Cork: Educational Co. of Ireland
[1928]; rep. Talbot Press [1929]); with others, We Sang for Ireland:
Poems of Ethna Carbery, Seumas MacManus, Alice Milligan (Dublin: M.
H. Gill; NY: Devin-Adair 1950), incl. port. of Carbery.
Bibliographical
details
The Four Winds of Eirinn, pref.
by Seamus MacManus (Dublin 1902), many eds. incl. Do. [7th edn.]
(Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son 1902), with port., and; enl. edn., (Gill
1905); another edn. Do. [new enl. edn., with port and preface (Dublin:
Gill; James Duffy & Co 1906), being the tenth thousand; Do.,
new edn. (1918); Do. [25th anniversary edn] (1927); Do.
[another edn.] (Dublin: M. H. Gill 1934); ill., with first edn. Preface
and memoir of 1918 edn.; Do. [another edn.] (Dublin: M. H. Gill
[n.d.]), with music by Charlotte Milligan Fox, ill. Seaghan Mac Cathmhaoil
[Joseph Campbell]
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Criticism
Terence Brown, ‘Of Heroes, Gods and Peasants’ [Chap. 4], Northern Voices,
Poets from Ulster (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1975), pp.59-60
C. L. Innes, ‘"A Voice in Directing the Affairs of Ireland", L’Irlande libre, The Shan Van Vocht, and Bean na h-Eireann’, in Paul Hyland and Neil Sammells, eds., Irish Writing, Subversion and Exile (London: Macmillan 1991), pp.146-58.
Sheila Turner Johnston, Alice: A Life of Alice Milligan (Omagh: Colourpoint 1993).
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction (Dublin: Maunsel 1919).
Brian Cleeve & Ann Brady, A Dictionary of Irish Writers (Dublin: Lilliput 1985).
A. A. Kelly, ed., Pillar of the House (Wolfhound 1988).
Katie Donovan, A. N. Jeffares, and Brendan Kennelly, eds., Ireland’s Women (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1994), b. Ballycastle [err.].
Eilis Ní Dhuibhne, Voices on the Wind: Women Poets of the Celtic Twilight (Dublin: New Island Books 1995).
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The British Library holds The Four Winds of Erinn, ed. Seumas [sic] MacManus (Dublin: MH Gill 1902 [sic]), ninth and tenth eds.; x, 120pp.; enlarged ed. (Gill 1905), xi, 154pp.; new ed. with memoir and add. poems (Gill 1918), vi, 163pp.; another ed. (Gill 1927), xxv, 140pp. [sic]; ill. ed. (Gill 1934), xxv, 140pp.; In The Celtic Past [stories] (Gill 1904); another ed. (Educational Co. of Irel. [1928]); another ed. (Talbot 1929); The Passionate Hearts, intro. James MacManus (London: Isbister & Co. 1903), 128pp.
Belfast Central Public Library holds Four Winds; Celtic Past; The Passionate Hearts (1903); Poems (1903).
University of Ulster Library holds The Four Winds, ed. Seumas McManus (Dublin: Gill, Duffy 1913/1905).
Cathach Books, Catl. No. 12, lists Passionate Hearts (1903), cover design by AE [George Russell].
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)