Life
1880-1959; b. Chittagong, India [now in Pakistan]; f. in colonial medical
service and friend of Tagor; brought up in Dublin; an Englishman in Bombay
civil service, m. 1902; returned Ireland 1906, joined Abbey Theatre’s
second company, appearing as Nell Byrne, &c.; played title role in
Fitzmaurice’s Country Dressmaker (1907); unpublished verse
plays, including Scarecrow Over the Corn (Gate 1932); lived at
43 Morehampton Rd., Dublin, where her literary at homes were attended
by Kavanagh, Flann O’Brien, and others incl. Ernie O’Malley;
mother of Cecil Salkeld. DIL DIW
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Works
Poetry pamphlets, Hello, Eternity (Elkin Mathews 1933);
A Dubliner (Dublin: Gayfield 1942), The Fox’s Covert
(JM Dent 1935); The Engine is Left Running (Gayfield [1937]);
Experiment In Error (Aldington, Kent: Hand & Flower Press [1955]).
Miscellaneous, contrib. extensively to The Dublin Magazine, book reviews, vols. 3-33; and 22 poems, vols. 8-32, incl. ‘Anna Akhmatova’ following a review of ‘Two Russian Poets’ (vols. 8&9); contrib. also to Irish Writing, Poetry Ireland, and Ireland Today.
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Notes
Katie O’Donovan, review
of Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, ed., Voices on the Wind, Women
Poets of the Celtic Twilight (New Island Books 1995) [poems of Katharine
Tynan; Eva Gore-Booth; Susan Mitchell; Nora Chesson Hopper; Ethna Carbery;
Dora Sigerson Shorter], 144pp.; comments that Blanaid Salkeld’s poetry
is particularly strong and deserves re-publication.
Name-sake? Cf. Robert Dwyer Joyce, Blanaid (1879), a poem published
the year before her birth.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)