Alice Milligan

Alice Milligan

Alice Milligan (1865-1953) was an Irish nationalist, active in the Gaelic League, and a poet.

Life

She was a Protestant, born in Gortmore, near Omagh; her father was the writer Seaton Milligan. She was a figure of the Irish literary revival, and an associate of Douglas Hyde and Roger Casement. With Ethna Carbery she founded two nationalist publications in the 1890s, "The Northern Patriot", and later "The Shan Van Vocht", a monthly literary magazine published in Belfast from 1896 to 1899.

Works

*Hero Lays (1908)
*We Sang for Ireland: Poems of Ethna Carbery, Seumas MacManus, Alice Milligan (1950) (1950)
*Poems (1954)
*Harper of the Only God: Selected poems by Alice Milligan (1993) edited by Sheila Turner Johnston

References

*"Alice: A Life of Alice Milligan" (1994) Sheila Turner Johnston

ee also

*List of Irish writers

External links

* [http://www.omagh.gov.uk/culture_leisure_and_tourism/things_to_do/activities/history_and_heritage/item.php?id=259 Omagh District Council page]


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