Life
1888-1977; b. Doagh, Co. Antrim; taught at Cogry Mills National School,
the Kilbride Central Primary School; wrote Other Days Around Me
(1966), and Roses and Rainbows (1972), reminiscence of country
childhood (‘Mary’) at the Bridge House, Doagh, towards close
Victoria’s reign, written in her seventies; also Rose and Rainbows
(1972 1983), a continuation from the time she took up her position as
a Monitress in a country school. ORM
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Works
Others Days Around Me (Longmans,
Browne & Nolan 1966), and Do. [rep. edn.] (Belfast: Blackstaff
1972; 1983); Roses and Rainbows (Belfast: Blackstaff 1972),
Others Days Around Me (Longmans, Browne & Nolan 1966) [l.c. cover title], ill. Rowel Friers; 163pp.; with Foreword by Sam Hanna Bell, pp.3-4, comparing it for sheer please with Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s The Lived in County Down, Carleton’s Autobiography, and Lynn Doyle, An Ulster Childhood; quotes, ‘family solidarity was perhaps in its heyday’.
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Criticism
Tom Paulin, ‘A Necessary Provincialism, Brian Moore, Maurice Leitch,
Florence Mary McDowell’, in Douglas Dunn, ed., Two Decades of
Irish Writing (Cheshire: Carcanet 1975) [q.pp.].
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References
Frank Ormsby, ed., Northern Windows: An Anthology of Ulster
autobiography (Belfast: Blackstaff 1987), pp.46-55, contains extracts
from Other Days Around Me [1966] (Blackstaff 1972; reiss. 1983),
and Roses and Rainbows (1972; 1983). Ormsby calls Roses and
Rainbows a posthumous publication.
Sophia Hillan King & Sean MacMahon, eds., Hope and History: Eyewitness Accounts of life in Twentieth-Century Ulster (Belfast: Friar’s Bush Press 1996), contains extract from ‘A Memoir of Alice Milligan’ (here pp.16-18). See also Patricia Craig, ed., The Rattle of the North (Belfast: Blackstaff 1992).
Books in Print (to 1994), Other Days Around Me [1966] (Blackstaff 1972; reiss. 1983) [0 85640 008 4]; Roses and Rainbows (1972, 1983) [0 85640 009 2]
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