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Amelia Perrier (1841–1875), Irish novelist and travel writer; Alice Perry (1885–1969), poet, feminist and early engineering graduate; Daphne Pochin Mould, 20th-century historian, pilot, broadcaster and writer; Madeleine A. Polland (1918–2005), children's author; Nannie Lambert Power O'Donoghue, (1843–1940), poet, journalist, novelist ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:20th-century Irish writers. It includes Irish writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:20th-century Irish male writers
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Gregory was born at Roxborough, County Galway, the youngest daughter of the Anglo-Irish gentry family Persse. Her mother, Frances Barry, was related to Viscount Guillamore, and her family home, Roxborough, was a 6,000-acre (24 km 2) estate located between Gort and Loughrea, the main house of which was later burnt down during the Irish Civil War. [3]
O'Brien was herself lesbian, and had a number of relationships with women, including the novelist E.M. Delafield, and the artist Mary O'Neill, who has been described as her 'life partner'. [7] She was very critical of conservatism in Ireland, and the banning of her books highlighted the Irish censorship laws.
She was a founding member of Galway Writers' Workshop in 1981 and was a regular attender until 2014. She was also a frequent contributor of poetry and memoir to Crannóg literary magazine. She was an accomplished visual artist, her artwork appearing on the covers of Crannóg magazine and on the cover of "Galway Then, Galway Now", an anthology ...
20th-century Irish women artists (3 C, 79 P) B. 20th-century Irish businesswomen (30 P) E. ... 20th-century Irish women writers (2 C, 254 P) This page was ...
Josephine Edna O'Brien DBE (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024) was an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer.. O'Brien's works often revolve around the inner feelings of women and their problems relating to men and society as a whole.