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Life
1950- ; b. Belfast; emig. to NSW, Australia in 1969; author of poetry and fiction; contrib. poems and an overview of Irish poetry to Many Voices: Poetry for World Peace in the New Millenium (2001); ed. We Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective (1996) - with num. Irish women contribs,
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We Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective (Australia: Spinifex 1996), 373pp. - incls. Irish women writers [inter al.]: Mary Dorcey, ‘My Grandmother’s Voice’ [12]; ‘The Breath of History’ [15]; ‘The Gaelic Poets Warned Me’ [18]; ‘The Whiteness of Snow’ [19]; ‘Learning to Live With it’ [20]; ‘I Cannot Love You as You Want to be Loved’ [22]; ‘I Saw a Fish this Morning’ [25]; Helena Mulkerns, ‘Famine Fever’ [27]; ‘The Whole Nine Yards’ [36]; ‘Colleen Burke A Shadow on the Heart’ [51]; ‘To Whom it May Concern’ [53]; ‘A Joyous Day’ [57]; Nuala Archer [Americann of Irish descent], ‘Sheela-Na-Gigging Around’ [91]. Siobhan McHugh, ‘Power Cuts’ [101]. Maeve Binchy, ‘Extract from Echoes’ [122]. Mary Daly, ‘Extract from Outercourse’ [134]. Sue Reidy [N.Z.], ‘Being Irish’ [150]; ‘Belief’ [157]. Medbh McGuckian, ‘Drawing Ballerinas: How Being Irish has Influenced Me as a Writer’ [185]; ‘The Mast Year’ [204]; ‘Road 32’; ‘Roof’ [13-23]; Grass 23’ [205]; ‘The Dead are More Alive’ [207]; ‘Rathlin Road’ [210]. Cherry Smyth, The Roadside’ [212]; ‘Maybe it was 1970’ [214]; ‘Summer Breeze’ [217]. Ailbhe Smyth, ‘Girl Beaming in a White Dress’ [239]. Lizz Murphy, ‘Growing a Language’ [250]; ‘Paper Petals’ [253]; ‘White Petals’ [255]; ‘Good Fairy Bad Fairy’ [257]; ‘My Irishness’ [258]; ‘Wee Girls’ [260]; ‘Sentiments’; ‘Millies’; ‘Tatts’; ‘Bobbing for Apples’; ‘Speaking of Eve’; ‘Sabbath’; ‘Good Women’; ‘Dying’ [262]; ‘Deadmen’s Eyes’ [266]; ‘Time Out’ [267]; ‘The Planet Next Door’ [269]. Rita Ann Higgins, ‘The Flogger’ [351]; ‘Prism’ [354]; ‘The Taxi Man Knows’ [355]; ‘Mothercare’ [356]; ‘Higher Purchase’ [358]; ‘The Flute Girl’s Dialogue’ [359]. Eavan Boland, ‘Anna Liffey’ [362]; ‘Making the Difference’ [370]; ‘The Emigrant Irish’ [373].
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