Life
[?-?; pseud. ‘Emelobie de Celtis’]; ‘a Dublin lady’
[IF]; works incl. The Pale and the Septs (1876); Leixlip Castle:
A Romance of the Penal Days of 1690 (1883); Ill-won Peerages, or
An Unhallowed Union (1884); Art MacMurrough O’Kavanagh
(1885); O’Byrne’s are the heroes of her works of 1883 and 1884,
prefaces to which extol the superior virtues of the Gael. IF
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Notes
Ireland
in Fiction, ed. Stephen Brown (Dublin: Maunsel 1919), lists The
Pale and the Septs, 2 vols. (Dublin: Gill [1876]) [steady advance
of English in all its cruelty]; Leixlip Castle (Dublin: Gill [1883])
[set c.1690]; Ill-Won Peerages, or An Unhallowed Union (Dublin:
Gill 1884), 716pp. [rebellion from Kilcullen to Vinegar Hill with all
noteworthy personages of period canvassed]; Art MacMurrough O’Kavanagh
(Dublin: Gill [1885]), 706pp. [full account of life, inside and outside
of Pale]; The Court of Rath Croghan (Dublin: Gill 1887), 465pp.
[Norman invasion]; Lord Roche’s Daughters of Fermoy (Dublin:
Sealy, Bryers; NY: Pratt 1892), 344pp. [Cromwellian invasion]; employs
idiom such as ‘yclept’.
Belfast Public Library holds Art MacMurrough O’Cavanagh (1885); Ill-Won Peerages (1884).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)