Katharine Tynan

(1900-1982) was also known as a writer.

Biography

Tynan was born into a large farming family in Clondalkin, County Dublin, and educated at a convent school in Drogheda. Her poems were first published in 1878. Tynan went on to play a major part in Dublin literary circles, until she married and moved to England; later she lived at Claremorris, County Mayo when her husband was a magistrate there from 1914 until 1919.

For a while, Tynan was a close associate of William Butler Yeats (who may have proposed marriage and been rejected, around 1885), and later a correspondent of Francis Ledwidge. She is said to have written over 100 novels; there were some unsurprising comments about a lack of self-criticism in her output. Her "Collected Poems" appeared in 1930; she also wrote five autobiographical volumes.

Tynan died in Wimbledon, London, in 1931 at the age of 70.

Publications

*"Louise de la Vallière" (1885) poems
*"Shamrocks" (1887)
*"Ballads & Lyrics" (1891)
*"Irish Love-Songs" (1892)
*"A Cluster of Nuts, Being Sketches Among My Own People" (1894)
*"Cuckoo Songs" (1894)
*"Miracle Plays" (1895)
*"The Land of Mist and Mountain" (1895)
*"The Way of a Maid" (1895)
*"Three Fair Maids, or the Burkes of Derrymore" (c.1895) later Illustrated by G. Demain Hammond
*"An Isle in the Water" (1896)
*"The Golden Lily" (1899)
*"The Dear Irish Girl" (1899)
*"Oh, What a plague is Love!" (1900)
*"Her Father's Daughter" (1900)
*"Poems" (1901)
*"A Daughter Of The Fields" (1901)
*"A King’s Woman" (1902)
*"Love of Sisters" (1902)
*"The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh" (1902)
*"The Handsome Quaker, and other Stories" (1902)
*"The Adventures of Carlo" (1903) illustrated by E. A. Cubitt
*"The Luck of the Fairfaxes" (1904)
*"A Daughter of Kings" (1905)
*"Innocencies" (1905) poems
*"For the White Rose" (1905)
*"A Little Book for Mary Gill's Friends" (1905)
*"The Story of Bawn" (1906)
*"The Yellow Domino" (1906)
*"Book of Memory" (1906)
*"Dick Pentreath" (1906)
*"The Cabinet of Irish Literature." (4 volumes) (1906) editor, expansion of work by Charles Read
*"The Rhymed Life of St Patrick" (1907) Illustrated by Lyndsay Symington
*"Twenty-One Poems By Katherine Tynan Selected By W.B. Yeats" (1907)
*"A Little Book of XXIV Carols" (1907)
*"Father Mathew" (1908) biography of Theobald Mathew
*"Experiences" (1908)
*"A Union of Hearts" (1908)
*"The House of the Crickets" (1908)
*"Ireland" (1909)
*"A Little Book for John O'Mahony's Friends" (1909)
*"The Book Of Flowers" (1909) with Frances Maitland
*"Mary Gray"(1909)
*"A Girl of Galway"
*"The Rich Man"
*"A Red, Red Rose" (c.1910)
*"Heart O' Gold or the Little Princess"
*"The Story of Cecelia" (1911)
*"New Poems" (1911)
*"Princess Katharine" (1911)
*"Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences" (1913)
*"Irish Poems" (1913)
*"The Wild Harp" (1913) poetry anthology, editor, illustrated by C. M. Watts
*"A Mesalliance" (1913)
*"The Daughter of the Manor" (1914) illustrated by John Campbell
*"A Shameful Inheritance" (1914)
*"Joining the colours" (1914)
*"The Flower of Peace" (1914) poems
*"Mary Beaudesert, V. S." (1915)
*"Flower of Youth" (1915) poems
*"The Curse of Castle Eagle" (1915)
*"The House of the Foxes" (1915) novel
*"Lord Edward: A Study in Romance" (1916)
*"The Middle Years" (1916)
*"Margery Dawe" (1916) illustrated by Frank E. Wiles
*"Late Songs" (1917)
*"Herb O'Grace" (1918) poems
*"The sad years" (1918) tribute to Dora Sigerson
*"The Years of the Shadow" (1919)
*"The Honourable Molly" (1919)
*"Denys the Dreamer" (1920)
*"The Handsome Brandons" (1921) Illustrated by G. D. Hammond
*"The Wandering Years" (1922)
*"Evensong" (1922)
*"White Ladies" (1922)
*"A Mad Marriage" (1922) novel
*"Memories" (1924)
*"The Man from Australia" (1925)
*"The Wild Adventure" (1927)
*"Twilight Songs" (1927)
*"The Face in the Picture" (1927)
*"Haroun of London" (1927)
*"Pat, the Adventurer" (1928)
*"Bitha's Wonderful Year" (1928)
*"The Respectable Lady" (1928)
*"The River" (1929)
*"Castle Perilous" (1929)
*"The Squire’s Sweetheart" (1930)
*"Denise the Daughter" (1930)
*"Collected Poems" (1930)
*"The Admirable Simmons" (1930)
*"The Forbidden Way" (1931)
*"Philippa's Lover" (1931)
*"A Lonely Maid" (1931)
*"The Story of Our Lord" (1932)
*"The Other Man" (1932)
*"An International Marriage" (1933)
*"Londonderry Air" (1935)
*"The Briar Bush Maid"
*"A little radiant girl", illustrated by John Campbell
*"A Passionate Pilgrim"
*"Maxims"
*"The Poems of Katharine Tynan" (1963) edited by Monk Gibbon
*"A Girls Song"

References

*"Some Catholic Novelists: Their Art and Outlook" (1931) Patrick Braybrook
*"W. B.Yeats, Letters to Katharine Tynan" (1953) edited by Roger McHugh
*"Katharine Tynan" (1974, Bucknell University Press) Marilyn Gaddis Rose
*"Katharine Tynan" (1979, Twayne Publishers) Ann Connerton Fallon

ee also

*"", a poem by Katherine Tynan on Wikisource.
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