Life
?1770-1798 [Elizabeth; properly Grey]; carried a green flag for the insurgents at battle of Ballynahinch, 13 June, 1798; and subject of the novel by Wesley G. Lyttle, Betsy Gray (1888); her grave became a site of nationalist pilgrimage and was destroyed by Loyalists early in the modern Troubles. DIB DUB
Criticism
Aiken McClelland, ed., W. G. Lyttle, Betsy Gray or Hearts of Down with Other Stories and Pictures of ’98 (Newcastle: Mourne Observer 2000), 207pp.
Notes
Miss M. Barry Delaney wrote on ‘Betsy Gray’ in the magazine she edited with Maud Gonne, L’Irlande Libre (1897).
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