Life
1884-1969; b. Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath; dg. RIC officer, moving to
Fore, Co. Westmeath; sisters Kitty (Mrs O’Doherty) and Mary (Mother
Columba, Loreto, Navan) also authors; ed. Fore national School, Collinstown,
and St Mary’s College, Belfast; qualified teacher; taught Scottish
Islands, and Cannistown, nr. Navan; not accepted for China Missions; travelled
to India at 73, researching life of [?]Mar Invanios, Archb. of Trivandrum;
biographer and prose writer; 1 poem in Catholic Bulletin (July
1912) PI
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Works
The Good-Night Stories (London: Year Book Press 1912); The Rose
of Glenconnel (London: Herbert Jenkins 1917), another ed. [Red Letter
Novels, no. 36] (London: DC Thomson & Co. [1921]); An Anzac’s
Bride (London: Herbert Jenkins 1918); Whom Love Hath Chosen
(London: Herbert Jenkins 1920); Hidden Fires (London: Herbert Jenkins
1921); Each Hour a peril (London: Herbert Jenkins 1921);
The Highest Bidder [Red Letter Novels, No. 20] (London:
DV Thomson & co. [1921]); The Bartered Bride (London: Herbert
Jenkins 1921); The Flame of Life (London: Herbert Jenkins 1922),
another ed., abridged (London: Mellifont Press [1942]); Shifting
Sands (London: Herbert Jenkins 1922); His Dupe [Red Letter
Novels, No.45 London: DC Thomson & Co. [1922]); Molly of the Lone
Pine [Red Letter Novels, No.51] (London: DC Thomson & Co. [1922]);
A Lover on Loan [Red Letter Novels, No.66] (London: DC Thomson
& Co. [1923]); Her Undying Past (London: Herbert Jenkins 1924);
Lone - and Carol (London: Herbert Jenkins 1925); Love’s
Defiance [Red Letter Novels, No.145] (London: DC Thomson & Co.
1926); Her Dancing Partner (London: Herbert Jenkins 1926); My
Pretty Maid, Talks with Girls by ‘Eithne’, with a
pref. by his Grace the Most Rev. TP Gilmartin, DD Archb. of Tuam (London:
Sands 1927); The Ukelele Girl (London: Herbert Jenkins 1927), another
ed. [Red Letter Novels, NO.184] (London: : DC Thomson & Co. [1927);
The Life of Magaret Aylward, Foundress of the Sisters of the Holy Faith
(London: Sands 1928), ills.; Little Nellie of Holy God (London:
Sands [1929]); Dancers in the Dark (London: Herbert Jenkins 1929),
another ed. as Ivy Stories no.201 (London: J Long & Co 1930); Painted
Butterflies (London: Herbert Jenkins 1931); Glimpses of Catholic
Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, Restoration of the Daughters of St
Brigid, by Most Rev. Dr. Delaney (Dublin: Browne & Nolan 1932);
Guide to St Patrick’s Purgatory, Lough Derg (Dublin;Talbot
Press 1932); Hollywood Madness (London: Herbert Jenkins 1936);
Loreto, Navan: One Hundred Years of Catholic Progress,
1833-1933 (Navan: Meath Chronicle 1937); The Ownership of Station
Island, Lough Derg (Dublin: Duffy 1937); Station Island, Lough
Derg, with historic sketch of the Pilgrimage and Chronology
(Dublin 1950); Mar Ivanios, 1882-1953, Archbishop of Trivandrum
(Dublin: Clonmore & Reynolds 1962).
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Notes
Mary Gibbons (1873-1959), her sister, was Mother Columba of Navan Loreto
Convent, advocate of Irish culture, and author of ‘Who Fears to Speak
of Easter Week?’; a close friend of Eamon de Valera in later years.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)