Louise C. Callaghan

Life
1948-; b. Dublin, ed. UCD, travels in Spain and lived as a ‘Cambridge wife’; qualified in Dublin as schoolteacher; wrote Find the Lady: A Life of Kate O’Brien (Abbey [q.d.]), a commissioned play.

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Works
The Puzzle-Heart (Galway: Salmon 2000), 62pp., with opening poem, “The Palatine Daughter Marries a Catholic” ]‘Now I have not the least sense of place/never wear the same colour twice’]; In the Ninth House (Moher: Salmon Poetry 2010), 93pp.

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Criticism
Selina Guinness, review Remembering the Birds, in The Irish Times (14 Jan. 2006), Weekend, p.13.

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References
Katie Donovan, A. N. Jeffares, & Brendan Kennelly, eds., Ireland’s Women (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1994) contains selection. Also incl. in Field Day Anthology (Vol. 5).

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