Mary Beckett (1926–2013) was an

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author.

Biography

She was born in

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. She attended St. Dominic's High School and then proceeded to St. Mary's Teacher Training College. She married and moved to Dublin where she worked as a teacher. She had five children.

Writing career

In the 1950s, she wrote radio plays for BBC Northern Ireland and had several short stories published. It was not until she was in her fifties that she began publish again. Her first was a collection of her earlier short stories entitled ''A Belfast Woman'' (1980). This was followed by ''A Literary Woman'' (1990). She also wrote a novel entitled ''Give them Stones'' (1987), and several children's books including ''Orla was Six'', ''Orla at School'', ''A Family Tree'', and ''Hannah, or the Pink Balloons''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beckett, Mary 1926 births 2013 deaths 20th-century Irish women writers 20th-century Irish short story writers Irish women novelists 20th-century Irish novelists Irish women short story writers Writers from Belfast People educated at St Dominic's Grammar School for Girls