One of LC
's first teachers was her nanny, Mary Kavanagh
, who tutored Leonora and told her ghost stories. When LC
was a child she was also exposed to stories by Beatrix Potter
,...
Friends, Associates
Katharine Tynan
At Clarebeg they began holding a literary salon for Irish writers and intellectuals. Their guests included Irish writer Padraic Colum
, his wife Mary Gunning Maguire
(later an eminent literary critic), poet and novelist James Stephens
During the last twenty years of her life, she became increasingly passionate about Irish politics and about her own Irish heritage. She closely followed news of the Easter Rising in Dublin, in 1916 and...
Textual Features
Katharine Tynan
She limited her selection to Irish lyrical poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, excluding political poems and poems either derived from English or already well-known to English audiences. Her wide range of poets included...