Life
1840-1911 [Miss Teresa J. Rooney; ‘Eblana’]; b. Dublin, author
of The Last Monarch of Tara (1880); Eily O’Hartigan, an
Irish-American Tale (1889) and The Strike (1909). IF
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References
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction (Dublin: Maunsel 1919),
lists Erin Quintiana [n.d.]; The Last Monarch of Tara (Dublin:
Gill 1880; NY: Benziger 1889) [set in the reigns of Tuathal and Diarmaid
Ó Cearbhail], revised by Canon Ulick J. Bourke, MRIA; Eily O’Hartigan,
an Irish-American Tale (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers 1889) [set in time of
the 1782 Volunteers, covering Bunker Hill and Irish Independence Declation;
strongly nationalist]; The Strike (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers 1909)
[set in 18th century Dublin Liberties when Ireland stood ahead in industrial
activity].
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