Eileen O’Faolain

Life
1902-[?; née Gould]; b. Cork; ed. UUC, m. Sean O’Faolain; her children’s books include The Little Black Hen (1940); Miss Pennyfeather in the Springtime (1946); The White Rabbit’s Adventures (1950); The Children of the Crooked Castle (1945); King of the Cats (1941); The Shadow of Man (1949); also produced two classic volumes of Irish myths and legends, Irish Sagas and Folk-Tales (1954), and Do., another edn. (1982), ill. Joan Kiddell-Monroe; High Sang the Sword (1959). IF2 OCIL

 

References
Belfast Public Library
holds Irish Sagas and Folk-tales (1954); Little Black Hen (1940).

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