Anna McKittrick (later AMKR
) married Andrew Ross
at Joymount Presbyterian Church, Carrickfergus, County Antrim.
Ros, Amanda McKittrick. “Introduction”. Thine in Storm and Calm, edited by Frank Ormsby, Blackstaff Press, 1988, pp. 1-22.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Amanda McKittrick Ros
Andrew Ross
died, leaving AMKR
a widow for the first time after thirty years of marriage. He had had to retire from the railway after a breakdown caused by the extra work required during the...
Friends, Associates
Amanda McKittrick Ros
In a trinket box, AMKR
kept Robert Emmet
's speech from the dock during his trial [in 1803], a withered pea pod that her first husband
had eaten the peas from on his deathbed, and...
Publishing
Amanda McKittrick Ros
AMKR
's husband, Andrew Ross
, paid for the printing of her first novel, at Belfast, as a gift on their tenth wedding anniversary.
Ros, Amanda McKittrick. “Introduction”. Thine in Storm and Calm, edited by Frank Ormsby, Blackstaff Press, 1988, pp. 1-22.
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As biographer Jack Loudan
puts it, she persuaded him...