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Life
?-1991; Prof. of English at Maynooth from 1987; author of bibliographer and authoritative study of William Carleton; married with children and separated; involved in relationship and moving to occupy shared home with T. P. Coogan at time of death; died in car-crash (reputedly with last words, ‘Am I dead yet?); her work on Carleton and Irish journals marked her out of the most methodical and perceptive student of Irish publishing history of her time and a pioneer in an area only then beginning to attract study.
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Works
Carleton’s Traits and Stories and the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Tradition (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1983); ‘Irish Periodicals’, in Anglo-Irish Studies, ii (1976), pp.83-108; A Bibliography of the Writings of William Carleton (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1985); with Enda McKay, Three Hundred Years of Irish Periodicals [Anglo-Irish Literary Studies] (1987); ‘“The Eeerishers are marchin’ in leeterature”: British Critical Reception of Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Fiction’, in Wolfgang Zach and Heinz Kosok eds., Literary Interrelations: Ireland, England and the World, Vol. I: Reception and Translation (Tübingen: Guntar Narr Verlag, 1987), pp.39-50.
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Criticism
A. N. Jeffares, ‘An Appreciation’ appeared in Yeats Annual, No. 10 (Macmillan 1993), pp.259-60; see also Frank McGuinness, “Traveller”, poem, in Poetry Ireland (Winter 1992/93), pp.83ff.
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