Life
1865-1945; b. St. Albans, Herts., dg. of J. Toulmin, JP; m. Algernon,
9th Baron Carbery, Castlefreke, Co. Cork; read widely in ancient and modern
Irish literature; learned Irish; her husband died of TB, 1898; remarried
Kit Sandford, a medical specialist in Cork, 1901 or 1902; Castle Freke
burned by accident, 1910; rebuilt, 1913, and sold by her eldest son, John,
1919; travelled in Europe with her husband; The Germans in Cork,
satire, and The Light in the Window, both published anon.;
Children of the Dawn (1923); The Farm by Lough Gur (1937;
rep. 1986), composed from reminiscences of Mary Fogarty (b.1858); later
settled at Harpenden, Herts., with her son Christopher Sandford who founded
the Golden Cockerel Press; her ‘Diaries 1898-1901’ issued by
his son Jeremy (1995). IF2
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Works
The Farm by Lough Gur: The Story of Mary Fogarty, introduced by
Lord Dunsany (London: Longmans 1937); Do. [another edn.], intro.
by Shane Leslie (London: Catholic Book Club 1938); Happy World: A Victorian
Childhood (1942); Jeremy Sandford, ed. & intro., Mary Carbery’s
West Cork Journals (Dublin: Lilliput Press 1995), 158pp. [infra]
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Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt. II] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985)
Hugh Oram, review, in Books Ireland (Summer 1999)
P. J. Kavanagh, Voices in Ireland (John Murray 1994), p.137.
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Library of Herbert Bell, Belfast holds Happy World (London 1941).
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)