Life
1880-1931; b. 2 July, Dublin; ed. Dominican Convent, Dublin, and National Univ., grad. 1905; worked for the Board of Intermediate Education; assisted with Catalogue of the Royal Irish Academy; contributed to the Old and Middle Irish Dictionary and Dictionary of the Irish Language; wrote treatise on “England in the Age of Chaucer”; published trans. of “Rob tu mo bhoile, a Comdi cride” by Dallan Forgaill, in “Eriú (1905), rendered as a hymn, “Be Thou My Light” by Eleanor H. Hull, 1912; d. 19. Jan. Dublin.
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References
Katie Donovan, A. N. Jeffares, & Brendan Kennelly, eds., Ireland’s Women (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1994); Gerald Dawe, ed., The Younger Irish Poets (Blackstaff [1982]; poems, rev. 1991), pp.65-73.
Website biography at Cyber Hymnal [link].
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