Life
1884-1963; b. Kilkenny, sister of Francis Hackett; ed. Kilkenny and in
Wales; With the Benefit of the Clergy (1924). IF2
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Notes
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels,
Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. 2] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), lists
With the Benefit of the Clergy (NY: Boni & Liveright 1924),
, 298pp., [a study of the tragedy of a made match between Jeremiah Nolan
and slovenly Mary Anne Cooney in a which a child dies of mother’s
neglect], and calls it ‘Unrelieved tragedy but without melodrama’.
Kate Newmann, Dictionary of Ulster Biography (Belfast: QUB/IIS 1993), gives variant bio-data: b. Omagh, Co. Tyrone; Radio Éireann plays; stories in Dublin Magazine; also With Benefit of Clergy (NY 1922).
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