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Mary Devenport O'Neill (3 August 1879 – 1967) was an Irish poet and dramatist and a friend and colleague of W. B. Yeats, George Russell, and Austin Clarke.
A Galway convent girl alone in 1890s Dublin, Mary Devenport O’Neill went on to establish herself as a writer and one of the literati of the Irish Free State.
Biography. Early Twentieth-Century author at her desk. In 1898, when Mary Devenport was nineteen and took her place in the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, her father was marked as deceased in the college records. He had been a Royal Irish Constabulary sub-constable in Loughrea, County Galway, where Mary was born in 1879.
Review of Edith Sitwell’s The Shadow of Cain, by Mary Devenport O’Neill; Gallery; Timeline; Bibliography. Plain-text; Zotero; Criticism ’The shallow loops the Blackbirds make’: Mary Devenport O’Neill’s Voices of Alterity “A Crooked Slice of Bread”: Mary Devenport O’Neill’s Dream Poems
Mary Devenport O'Neill, poet and playwright, was initially a student of art. Born in Galway and educated in Dublin at the Dominican Convent in Eccles Street and at the Metropolitan School of Art, she was a talented painter, but later turned to literature as her sole artistic focus.
O'Neill, Mary (1879–1967), poet and playwright, was born 3 August 1879 in Barrack St., Loughrea, Co. Galway, daughter of John Devenport , RIC sub-constable, and Bridget Devenport (née Burke).
I examine Devenport as a woman writer and consider how her writing may be seen as a precursor for some later Irish women’s work. This case study of Devenport’s writing also draws on contemporary feminist discussion and methodological approaches to previously neglected women’s writing.
