She often took her Irish heritage and the nationalist cause, as well as nature, motherhood, and her Catholicism
, as inspirations for her poetry.
Hinkson, Pamela. “The Friendship of Yeats and Katharine Tynan, II: Later Days of the Irish Literary Movement”. The Fortnightly, No. 1043 n.s., pp. 323-36.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The Legend of the Sorrowful Mother, a narrative poem...
Textual Production
Katharine Tynan
In addition to this editorial work, KT
also wrote introductions or forewords for a number of volumes, including Lionel Johnson
's Poems (1904), Edmund Leamy
's By the Barrow River and Other Stories (1907), The...
Intertextuality and Influence
Ellen Wood
Charles Wood
relates that Richard Bentley
requested a motto for the novel. EW
eventually drew one from from Longfellow
's The Courtship of Miles Standish, feeling that this poem was so applicable to the...