Mary Stanislaus MacCarthy

Sister Mary Stanislaus MacCarthy (1849–1897) was an Irish poet and nun.

MacCarthy was a daughter of poet Denis Florence MacCarthy, who wrote as "Desmond of The Nation".

She was born in Blackrock, County Dublin, studied at St. Catherine's Dominican Convent, Sion Hill, Blackrock, and joined the community in 1869.

Bibliography

• A Birthday Book of the Dead, Dublin, 1886.
• Songs of Sion, Dublin, 1898.
• A Saint Among Sinners: Sketch of the Life of St. Emmelia, Mother of St. Basil the Great, Dublin, 1885.
• Life of Blesed Emily Bicchieri, O.S.D., Dublin, 1902.

References

• Denis Florence MacCarthy's Daughter:Sister Mary Stanislaus MacCarthy, O.S.D., pp. 495-6, 561-74 and 617-23, Irish Monthly 25 September, November and December 1897.
• MacCarthy, Mary Stanislaus, pp.148-149, Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Irish Women Poets, Anne Ulry Colman, Kennny's Bookshop, Galway, 1996. ISBN 0 906312 44 2.

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