Life
1865-1944 [Countess Fingall; Elizabeth Mary "May" Plunkett,
née Burke; called ‘Daisy’], dg. George Burke of Danesfield,
Co. Galway, JP; m. Plunkett, Lord Fingall [11th Earl], called ‘the
Somnolent Earl’, Catholic branch of the Meath Plunkett family whose
property was held by the Protestant branch; resided at Killeen [sic Who’s
Who].
Works
Seventy Years Young, memoir by Countess Fingall; dictated [ie. ghosted
by] to Pamela Hinkson (Collins 1937); Do., rep. (Dublin: Lilliput
Press 1991), foreword ed. Trevor West (TCD Fellow); MS in TCD library
shows that there were no ‘spicy bits’ to be excised as it is
rumoured that George O’Brien had recommended she do at first publication.
The objects of her acknowledgements include R. I. Best, Myles Dillon,
Walter Starkie, Dr. George O’Brien, et al.
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Criticism
Patrick J. Duffy, ‘Writing Ireland: Literature and Art in the Representation
of Irish Place’, in Brian Graham, ed., In Search of Ireland: A
Cultural Geography of Ireland (Routledge 1997), , p.73.
Terence de Vere White, The Anglo-Irish, 1972, p.266.
Mark Bence-Jones, Twilight of the Ascendancy (Constable
1987).
Oliver James Horace Plunkett, 12th Earl of Fingall [b.1896], Catalogue of the Valuable contents of Killeen Castle, Dunsany: The Property of the Right Hon. The Earl of Fingall ... which will be sold by auction by Town & Country Estates (Ireland), Limited ... on Monday, 20th July, 1953 (1953), 68pp., 12pp. pls. [TCD Library].
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)