Life
The Land is Dear (Melrose 1936), (iv), 5-288pp. [Eggeley Catl. 44];
poetry included in Padraic Fiacc, The Wearing of the Black (Blackstaff
1974); also Phelim and the Creatures (London: Chatto & Windus [1952]),
vii, 146pp., ill Sydney Passmore; The Silver Fighting Cocks (London:
Faber 1966), 189pp.; and other works, chiefly children’s stories,
some for Grasshopper Books.
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Notes
Belfast Public Library holds 8 titles incl. All Because of Dawks (1956);
Dawks Does it Again (1956); Strangers in Carrigmore (1958); Tiffany and
the Swallow Rhyme (1956).
James Simmons’s review of Padraic Fiacc, ed., The Wearing
of the Black (1974) incl. unenthusiatic allusions to Meta Mayne Reid’s
poetry together with the sentence: ‘I got a postcard from Meta Mayne
Reid saying, among other things, that we all owed Padraic Fiacc a dept
of gratitude for editing this anthology. Depsite the many reservations
and criticisms above, I go along with that.’ (The Honest Ulsterman,
Nov. 1974-Feb. 1975, p.71)
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)