Life
c.1949- [prop. Anne le Marquand Hartigan]; b. England (née le Marquand),
of Jersey Island family; raised a Catholic; ed. Reading Univ. (Fine Art);
settled in Ireland with her husband, a farmer, 1962, and later divorced;
six children; lives Dartmouth Rd., Dublin; divorced from Irish farmer;
poetry collections incl. Return Single [?], Now is a Moveable
Feast (1991), performed on RTE, 1980; Behind the Sea (1993);
Immortal Sins (1993); verse plays incl. Beds (Dublin Theatre
Festival 1982), much as the title; also La Corbière (Dublin
Theatre Festival 1990), on prostitutes callously drowned by the occupying
German forces off Jersey; guest writer at Kerry International Summer School,
Aug. 1996, lecturing on the ‘suppression, ridicule, and opposition’
that women who want to write have faced (Clearing the Space: A Why
of Writing, 1996); member of UCD Women’s Study Forum; three plays
(La Corbière, Le Crapaud, Les Yeux), her "Jersey
Lilies", were performed at Beckett Centre, TCD, Sept. 1996. ATT
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Works
Now is a Moveable Feast (Salmon Publishing 1991), 99pp.; Immortal
Sins (Salmon/Poolbeg 1994), 157pp.; Clearing the Space: A Why of
Writing (Salmon 1996), 29pp.
Anthologised in Cathy Leeney, ed., Seen and Heard: Six New Plays by Irish Women (Carysfort Press 2003), 338pp.[“La Corbiere”].
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Criticism
Rebecca E. Wilson, and Gillian Somerville-Arjat, [interviews and] eds.,
Sleeping with Monsters: conversations with Scottish and Irish women
poets (Wolfhound 1990), pp.201-07 [incl. poems, “Long Tongue”;
“If”; p.129 [Heirloom’].
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Notes
Poems included in Ailbhe Smyth, ed., Wildish Things, An Anthology of
New Irish Women’s Writing (Attic 1989); also in Katie Donovan,
A. N. Jeffares, and Brendan Kennelly, eds., Ireland’s Women (Dublin:
G&M 1994).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)