Life
1953- ; m. Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, 1972, with whom Dialann sa Díseart
(1981); An Bealach Eadóigh (1984), poems; The Whispering
Arch and Other Stories (1986); and Farewell, Beir Beannacht (1990);
also Frau Luther (1984), a play; a fluent German-speaker, she brought
her own Whispering Arches to the Irish stand in Hamburg Book Fair, 1987.
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Notes
Colin Graham, reviewing David Wheatley, Misery Hill (Gallery),
95pp., with works of Peter Sirr and Rita Kelly, writes, ‘David Wheatley’s
Misery Hill has at its centre another Dublin flâneur [...]
James Clarence Mangan, whome Wheatley makes into a street-prowling predecessor’.
Rita Ann Kelly ‘at her best when making the most of the anecdotal.
She is disarmingly endearing and perceptive in recounting her experiences
and friendships. Too at times too close to naivity and over-simplification,
she does have an ear for a finely tuned line and an eye for detail which
usually saves her. [...] Rita Ann Kelly’s poetry is gently teasing
and humanely open.’
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