Life
1879-1967 [née Devenport]; b. 3 Aug., Loughrea, Co. Galway; ed.
Eccles St. College and National [then Metropolitan] College of Art; dg.
sub-contstable at Loughrea; ed. convent and National College of Art; m.
Joseph O’Neill [supra], 29 June, 1908; Thursday salon at Kenilworth
Sq., Rathgar; Yeats’s consultant on A Vision and friend; contrib.
Irish Times, The Bell, Dublin Magazine; plays published
in magazine form only; wrote lyrics for The Kingdom Makers (1917);
verse plays, Bluebeard (1933); Cain (1945); poetry includes
Prometheus and Other Poems (London: Jonathan Cape 1929); Bluebeard,
a ballet, choreographed by Ninette de Vallois as one of the final productions
of the Abbey school of ballet, appearing with The Drinking Horn
by Arthur Duff, 1933. DIL DIW OCIL
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Works
Poetry, ‘Three Poems’, Irish Statesman, 4 (Aug. 1,
1926), 650; Dead in the Wars and in Revolutions, The Dublin Magazine
16 (Winter 1941), 7; ‘Scene-shifter Death, The Dublin Magazine
19 (Spring 1944), 40; Valhalla, The Dublin Magazine 19 (Winter
1944), 3; ‘Lost Legions’, The Dublin Magazine 24 (Spring
1949), 16; Prometheus and Other Poems (Jon. Cape 1929). Plays,
‘Cain’, The Dublin Magazine 13 (Spring 1938), 30-48,
verse; ‘Out of Darkness’, The Dublin Magazine 22 (Summer
1947), 20-39, play; ‘The Visiting Moon’, The Dublin Magazine
23 (Spring 1948), 35-46, verse play.
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Notes
Yeats became friends with the O’Neill’s and learned a lot about
Irish schooling from them. (See A. N. Jeffares, W B Yeats: A New Biography,
London: Macmillan 1988, p.278.)
Mary Davenport [sic] O’Neill; [3] Kenilworth Sq., Yeats’s consultant when writing A Vision; her Thursday At Home attended by Yeats, AE, et al. (Robert Greacen, Brief Encouters, [28-29)
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)