Life
1914-1992 [var. 1988]; b. India, of Scottish parents; ed. Britain; arrived
in Ireland as tutor to Phoebe Kirkwood and the other girls of the family
nr. Carrick-on-Shannon, and stayed for ten years, an experience recorded
in Woodbrook (1974); also issued two novels and three children’s
books.
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Works
Woodbrook (London: Barrie & Jenkins 1974; Penguin edn., 1976); The Irish Journals of Elizabeth Smith, 1840-1850, ed. with introduction
by David Thomson and Moyra McGusty (1980).
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Notes
P. J. Kavanagh, Voices in Ireland (1994), gives an account of Thomson at Woodbrook and Rockingham (p.76); also gives obit. as 1988.
Belfast Public Library holds Woodbrook (Penguin 1976). QRY
[namesake]: The People of the Sea (Edinburgh: Canongate 1996),
man seal legends in Hebrides and W. Ireland.
Micheál Ó Suilleabháin (composer and Chair
of Music, Limerick U.) has produced a piece for piano and orchestra called ‘Woodbrook’, conceived as the soundtrack for a documentary on
Thompson’s novel of that name, which was transmitted on RTE.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)