Katharine Tynan (23 January 1859 – 2 April 1931)
[Clarke, Frances (2013)]
"Hinkson (née Tynan), Katharine Tynan"
in ''Dictionary of Irish Biography'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). was an Irish writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry. After her marriage in 1893 to the Trinity College scholar, writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson (1865–1919) she usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson, or variations thereof. Tynan's younger sister Nora O'Mahony (née Tynan, 1866–1954) was also a poet and one of her three children,
Pamela Hinkson (1900–1982), was also known as a writer.
The Katharine Tynan Road in Belgard,
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is named after her.
Biography
Tynan was born into a small farming family in
County Dublin
"Action to match our speech"
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and educated at the Dominican St. Catherine's, a convent school in
Drogheda
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. Her poetry was first published in 1875.
She met and became friendly with the poet
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame placed him among leading Victorian poets. His prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innovato ...
in 1886. Tynan went on to play a major part in Dublin
literary circles
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, until she married and moved to England; later she lived at
Claremorris
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,
County Mayo
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when her husband was a
magistrate
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from 1914 until 1919.
From June 1885 when they first met until around the time of her marriage in 1893, Tynan was a close associate of and regular correspondent with
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...
(who may have proposed marriage and been rejected).
Tynan was also later a correspondent of
Francis Ledwidge
Francis Edward Ledwidge (19 August 188731 July 1917) was a 20th-century Irish poet. From Slane, County Meath, and sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds", he was later also known as a First World War war poet. He befriended the establish ...
. She is said to have written over 100 novels. Her ''Collected Poems'' appeared in 1930; she also wrote five autobiographical volumes.
Tynans contributed to many periodicals and magazines such as the Jesuit published
Studies
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, the Dominican published
Irish Rosary
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,
Irish Monthly
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History
The magazine was founded by Matthew Russell, who was its editor for al ...
, Hibernia and
Dublin University Review
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.
Tynan died in
Wimbledon, London
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aged 72.
Publications
*''Louise de la Vallière'' (1885) poems
*''Shamrocks'' (1887)
*''Ballads & Lyrics'' (1891)
*''Irish Love-Songs'' (1892)
*''A Cluster of Nuts, Being Sketches Among My Own People'' (1894)
*''Cuckoo Songs'' (1894)
*''Miracle Plays'' (1895)
*''The Land of Mist and Mountain'' (1895)
*''The Way of a Maid'' (1895)
*''Three Fair Maids, or the Burkes of Derrymore'' (c.1895) later Illustrated by G. Demain Hammond
*''An Isle in the Water'' (1896)
*''Any Woman'' (1896)
*''Oh, What a Plague is Love!'' (1896)
*''The Golden Lily'' (1899)
*''The Dear Irish Girl'' (1899)
*''Her Father's Daughter'' (1900)
*''Poems'' (1901)
*''A Daughter of the Fields'' (1901)
*''A King's Woman'' (1902)
*''Love of Sisters'' (1902)
*''The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh'' (1902)
*''The Handsome Quaker, and other Stories'' (1902)
*''The Adventures of Carlo'' (1903) illustrated by E. A. Cubitt
*''The Luck of the Fairfaxes'' (1904)
*''A Daughter of Kings'' (1905)
*''Innocencies'' (1905) poems
*''For the White Rose'' (1905)
*''A Little Book for Mary Gill's Friends'' (1905)
*''The Story of Bawn'' (1906)
*''The Yellow Domino'' (1906)
*''Book of Memory'' (1906)
*''Dick Pentreath'' (1906)
*''The Cabinet of Irish Literature.'' (4 volumes) (1906) editor, expansion of work by Charles Read
*''The Rhymed Life of St Patrick'' (1907) Illustrated by Lyndsay Symington
*''Twenty-One poems, selected by
W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...
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Dun Emer Press
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, 1907)
*''A Little Book of XXIV Carols'' (1907)
*''Father Mathew'' (1908) biography of
Theobald Mathew
*''Experiences'' (1908)
*''A Union of Hearts'' (1908)
*''The House of the Crickets'' (1908)
*''Ireland'' (1909)
*''A Little Book for John O'Mahony's Friends'' (1909)
*''The Book of Flowers'' (1909) with Frances Maitland
*''Mary Gray'' (1909)
*''A Girl of Galway''
*''The Rich Man''
*''A Red, Red Rose'' (c.1910)
*''Heart O' Gold or the Little Princess''
*''The Story of Cecelia'' (1911)
*''New Poems'' (1911)
*''Princess Katharine'' (1911)
*''Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences'' (1913)
*''Irish Poems'' (1913)
*''The Wild Harp'' (1913) poetry anthology, editor, illustrated by C. M. Watts
*''A Mesalliance'' (1913)
*''A Midsummer Rose'' (1913)
*''The Daughter of the Manor'' (1914) illustrated by John Campbell
*''A Shameful Inheritance'' (1914)
*''The Flower of Peace'' (1914) poems
*''Mary Beaudesert, V. S.'' (1915)
*''Flower of Youth'' (1915) poems
*''The Curse of Castle Eagle'' (1915)
*''The House of the Foxes'' (1915) novel
*''Joining the colours'' (1916)
*''Lord Edward: A Study in Romance'' (1916)
*'' The Holy War (Great War Poems) 1916.
*''The Middle Years'' (1916)
*''Margery Dawe'' (1916) illustrated by Frank E. Wiles
*''Late Songs'' (1917)
*''Herb O'Grace'' (1918) poems
*''The sad years'' (1918) tribute to
Dora Sigerson
Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter (16 August 1866 – 6 January 1918) was an Irish poet and Sculpture, sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter.
Life
She was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of George S ...
*''The Years of the Shadow'' (1919)
*''The Honourable Molly'' (1919)
*''Denys the Dreamer'' (1920)
*''The Handsome Brandons'' (1921) Illustrated by G. D. Hammond
*''Bitha's Wonderful Year'' (1922)
*''The Wandering Years'' (1922)
*''Evensong'' (1922)
*''White Ladies'' (1922)
*''A Mad Marriage'' (1922) novel
*''Memories'' (1924)
* ''Life in the Occupied Area ''(1925)
*''The Man from Australia'' (1925)
*''The Wild Adventure'' (1927)
*''Twilight Songs'' (1927)
*''The Face in the Picture'' (1927)
*''Haroun of London'' (1927)
*''Pat, the Adventurer'' (1928)
*''The Respectable Lady'' (1928)
*''The River'' (1929)
*''Castle Perilous'' (1929)
*''The Squire's Sweetheart'' (1930)
*''Denise the Daughter'' (1930)
*''Collected Poems'' (1930)
*''The Admirable Simmons'' (1930)
*''The Forbidden Way'' (1931)
*''Philippa's Lover'' (1931)
*''A Lonely Maid'' (1931)
*''The Story of Our Lord'' (1932)
*''The Other Man'' (1932)
*''An International Marriage'' (1933)
*''Londonderry Air'' (1935)
*''The Briar Bush Maid''
*''A little radiant girl'', illustrated by John Campbell
*''A Passionate Pilgrim''
*''Maxims''
*''The Poems of Katharine Tynan'' (1963) edited by Monk Gibbon
*''A Girls Song"
Bibliography
* Patrick Braybrook: ''Some Catholic Novelists: Their Art and Outlook'' (1931)
*
Roger McHugh
Roger Joseph McHugh (24 July 1908 – 2 January 1987) was an Irish academic, author, playwright, politician and Irish Republican.
He was educated Our Lady's Bower, Athlone; Synge Street CBS, Dublin and University College Dublin (UCD).
McHugh w ...
(ed.): ''W. B.Yeats, Letters to Katharine Tynan'' (1953)
* Marilyn Gaddis Rose: ''Katharine Tynan'' (Bucknell University Press, 1974)
* Ann Connerton Fallon: ''Katharine Tynan'' (Twayne Publishers, 1979)
* Anne Ulry Colman, ''A dictionary of nineteenth-century Irish women poets'' (1996)
* Rolf Loeber and Magda Loeber, ''A guide to Irish fiction 1650–1900'' (2006), 1315–1332
References
External links
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in The Fortnightly Review
Katharine Tynan Hinkson Papers, 1885–1929at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Special Collections Research Center
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Twenty-one Poems by Katharine Tynan: Selected by W. B. Yeats'' Dundrum: Dun Emer Press, 1907. Via HathiTrust.
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