Mary Anne Kelly [Eva of the Nation]
Life 1825-1910 [vars. Mary Anne, Mary Eva, Eva Mary; Eva of The Nation]; b. grandfathers house, a Mr OFlaherty, at Headford, Co. Galway; priv. educated; early translations incl. Lamartines Dying Christian; the banshee accepted by The Nation; also contrib. to Irish Tribune; several pseuds. before settling on Eva with Lament for Davis, used exclusively thereafter; also prose; bolstered Kevin Izod ODohertys determination to refuse the plea bargain; m. ODoherty in Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire), 1855; briefly settled in Paris; ODoherty elected to Legislative Assembly, Queensland; Meath MP, 1886; returned to Australia; survived him by 5 years; Poems (1877); Selections (1908); Poems by Eva of the Nation (San Francisco 1877); d. Brisbane, May 1910. CAB PI ODNB DBIV DIB DIW DIH MKA OCIL
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Works Poems by Eva of the Nation (San Francisco 1877), rev. and enl. ed., pref. Seumas MacManus and memoir by Justin MacCarthy (Dublin: MH Gill & Son 1909).
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Criticism Irish Literary Celebrities 5: Mary Izod ODoherty, in The Nation (8 Dec. 188[?]); Justin McCarthy, Eva of the Nation, in Seumus MacManus, ed., Poems by Eva of the Nation, intro. William Hickey (Dublin: Gill 1909) [prepared by authoress]. P. J. Dillon, in Capuchin Annual (1933); ֹEva of The Nation [obit.], in The Irish Book Lover, Vol. I, No. 12 (July, 1910), p.163 [Eva Mary Kelly].
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References Chris Morash, The Hungry Voice (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1989), b. c.1825 at Headford, Co Galway; d. Brisbane, May 1910; engaged to Kevin Izod, who she married after his transportation to Australia; Home Again in Poems of Eva of The Nation (Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son 1909), p.65.
Stopford. A. Brooke & T. W. Rolleston, eds., A Treasury of Irish Verse (1900) incls. poems; see also anthologies by Michael MacDermott, Varian, et al.
John Cooke, ed., Dublin Book of Irish Verse 1728-1909 (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis 1909); bio-dates, 1825- ; To Erin; Remembrance (from the Irish); The Nations Eva, Mary Eva, Mrs. [Kevin Izod] ODoherty.
Brian Cleeve & Anne Brady, A Dictionary of Irish Writers (Dublin: Lilliput 1985), err, dg. of Kevin Izod ODoherty.
Belfast Public Library holds Poems by Eva (1877, 1907) [?recte 1909].
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Notes Annie Keary: Kearys Castle Daly (1875) contains a dialogue between Mr. Thornley and Ellen, as follows: I shall begin to think you are the Eva or the Speranza who write pathetic treason in the Nation; Dont sneer at them, please. I have read verses of their that I should indeed be proud to have written. (p.301).
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