Kathleen Casement

Life
1923- ; member of the Casement family of Ballycastle, a g.-niece of Sir Roger Casement [q.v.]; ed. Ruskin School of Art, Oxford; married Robin Reade, and lives at Carncairne Lodge, Broughshane; author aged 11 of child’s Story of Snowball, a pony that strayed from Knocklayd to the hills above Glendun, printed by her parents at Lucknow in 1936, and subsequently reprinted by Scarlett. IF2

 

References
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt II] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), calls her Eileen and a sister [sic] of Roger Casement; Story of Snowball (Ballycastle: Scarlett 1952) is set in Cushendun, Ballintoy and Knocklayde, &c.; Snowball is a pony. Note: Tthe biography above has been corrected by Sir Charles Brett [q.v.] in email correspondence with RICORSO.

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