Life
1945- ; b. Co. Leitrim; married to David Marcus; ed. UCD; member of Workers’
Party (later Communist Party of Ireland); disillusioned by repression
in Prague, 1968; taught at St. Louis’s Convent School, Rathmines;
stories, The Lady with the Red Shoes (1980); Ellen (London:
Jonathan Cape 1986); A Singular Attraction (1987); All Fall
Down (1992); has illustrated works of Paula Meehan; Unholy Ghosts
(Bloomsbury 1996), 256pp. FDA
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Criticism
Katie Donovan reviews Unholy Ghosts (Bloomsbury), in Irish Times,
23.2.1996, Wk. p.8.
REVW, ‘A child of history’, Gébler reviews Ita Daly, Unholy Ghosts, in TLS (1 Mar 1996), p.24.
Liam Carson in Books Ireland (Sept. 1996), p. 225.
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Notes
‘Aimez-vous Colette?’, a story anthologised in David Marcus,
ed., Irish Love Stories, concerns a woman who comes to be an ageing
school-teaching spinsters through failing to take a love-opportunity with
a black man. (See review, ILS, Fall 1995, p.20).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)