Daisy Burke

Elizabeth Mary Margaret Burke Plunkett Fingall, known as Daisy Burke, (1865–1944) was an Irish author and Countess of Fingall.

Born at Danesfield House,^[1] midway between Galway and Moycullen, her father was a magistrate and landlord who was fluent in English as well as Irish.^[2] She was from an aristocratic Catholic^[3] family that traces its roots to Normans who invaded Ireland in the twelfth century CE.^[4]

She married, in 1883, Arthur James Francis Plunkett, 11th Earl of Fingall (1859–1929).^[4] She was on good terms with a broad section of Irish and British society, such as Countess Markievicz, Horace Plunkett,^[5] Edward Carson, Edward Martyn, Lady Lavery, Charles Stewart Parnell, George Wyndham, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Edward VII, George William Russell, George Bernard Shaw, George Moore^[6] and W.B. Yeats.

She played the part of The Countess Cathleen in its performance as a pageant at Dublin Castle in January 1899.

Her autobiography, Seventy Years Young^[7] has been in print since its publication by Collins in 1937.

Bibliography

• Seventy Years Young, London, 1937

References

1. ^ Kickham, Lisbet (2004). Protestant women novelists and Irish society 1879-1922. Lund University. p. 29. ISBN 9789197402354. 
2. ^ Moran, Gerard P. (1996). Galway history and society. Geography Publications. p. xxvii. ISBN 9780906602751. 
3. ^ Somerville-Large, Peter (1996). Dublin, the fair city. Sinclair-Stevenson. p. 236. ISBN 9781856197915. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Leslie, Anita (1973). The Marlborough House set. Doubleday. pp. 98–99. ISBN 9780385014489. 
5. ^ West, Trevor (1986). Horace Plunkett: co-operation and politics : an Irish biography. C. Smythe. p. 112. ISBN 9780813206301. 
6. ^ Costello, Peter (1999). Dublin Castle in the life of the Irish nation. Wolfhound Press. p. 104. ISBN 9780863276101. 
7. ^ O'Riain, Flann (2000). Townlands of Leinster and the people who lived there. Open Air. p. 100. ISBN 9781851824656. 

• Galway Authors, Helen Mahar, 1976

External links

• http://www.lilliputpress.ie/listbook.html?isbn=0%20946640%2074%202

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