Mary Purcell

Life
1906- ; b. Carrigeen; ed., St. Louis Convent, Monaghan; Biogs. include The Halo on a Sword, Joan d’Arc (1950); Matt Talbot and His Times (1954); Palme Academique. DIW IF2

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References
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt II] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), lists one novel, The Pilgrims Came Late (1947), a tale of marriage, murder and edifying execution; also biographies on subjects incl. St. Joan of Arc, St. Francis Xavier, St. Ignatius, St. Anthony of Padua.

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