Mary Fitzpatrick
Life
fl.1914 [Mrs W. G. Sullivan; var. W. C.]; b. barony of Franey, Co. Monaghan; ed. Dublin and Paris; m. son of President of Queens College, Cork; The One Outside (Dublin: Maunsel 1914), 245pp. [eight stories with Irish subject matter in various periods and settings, dealing with Irish characters and blighted hopes and ] - accredited with love of Ireland by Fr Stephen Brown (IF). IF DUB
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Commentary Reviews: author of The One Outside [c. 1915], noticed in Maunsel publishers list appended to 1915 pop. edn. of St. John Ervine, Mrs. Martins Man, with remarks on her racy flavour and sure appeal owing to sincerity and simplicity (Glasgow Herald); also called a collection of charming and sympathetic short stories
most of them are informed by the realistation that underlying tragedy of all life, which finds its most representative expression in the Celtic temperament. (Westminster Gazette).
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References Dictionary of Ulster Biography, ed. Kate Newmann (Belfast: QUB/IIS 1993), dates early 20th c. only; adds m. Sullivan, presumably the president of Queens College, Cork; published in periodicals in Ireland and America.
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