Gertrude M. O’Reilly

Life
[?-?]; mat. gd. Col. Alexander McDonnell of Cushendall, who converted to Catholicism; ed. Sacred Heart, Mt. Anville, and Roehampton; university educated; Oireachtas prize for study of Irish MSS; health broke down in 1905; settled in Claddagh, Galway; removed to America, 1907; living in Chicago; wrote for press and lectured on Irish subjects; Just Stories (1915). IF

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Works
Just Stories (NY: Devin-Adair Co. 1915), 233pp.

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References
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. I] (Dublin: Maunsel 1919), lists Just Stories (NY: Devin-Adair Co. 1915), 233pp. and cites author’s preface, [‘thoughts go back to the long restful days beside Galway Bay, to those still evenings in the Cork hills. ... These little stories are the fruit of these moments of retrospection’.]

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