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Eileen Shanahan (Irish Poet)
Eileen Shanahan (28 October 1901 – 28 January 1979) was an Irish poet. Her best-known poem, ''The Three Children (Near Clonmel)'', has been republished five times since its original publication in ''The Atlantic Monthly'' in 1929, and was included in the ''Oxford Book of Irish Verse'' (1958). Biography She was born in Dublin, where her father George Shanahan (1856–1944) was Assistant Secretary of the Irish Board of Works, 1895–1921 and Honorary Treasurer of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925–44. Her maternal grandfather was J. J. Clancy (1847–1928), Irish Nationalist MP for North County Dublin from 1885 to 1918. Via her maternal grandmother Margaret Hickie, she was related to the revolutionary, poet and author Piaras Béaslaí. She was educated at St Catherine's Dominican Convent, Sion Hill, Blackrock, Dublin and at Alexandra College. She worked as a secretary in Dublin and from 1929 at the League of Nations in Geneva. She married a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Shanahan
Eileen Shanahan (28 October 1901 – 28 January 1979) was an Irish poet. Her best-known poem, ''The Three Children (Near Clonmel)'', has been republished five times since its original publication in ''The Atlantic Monthly'' in 1929, and was included in the ''Oxford Book of Irish Verse'' (1958). Biography She was born in Dublin, where her father George Shanahan (1856–1944) was Assistant Secretary of the Irish Board of Works, 1895–1921 and Honorary Treasurer of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925–44. Her maternal grandfather was J. J. Clancy (MP), J. J. Clancy (1847–1928), Irish Nationalist MP for North County Dublin from 1885 to 1918. Via her maternal grandmother Margaret Hickie, she was related to the revolutionary, poet and author Piaras Béaslaí. She was educated at Dominican College Sion Hill, St Catherine's Dominican Convent, Sion Hill, Blackrock, Dublin and at Alexandra College. She worked as a secretary in Dublin and from 1929 at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |