This spelling predominates, but Sheelagh and Shelah are also used for her. The website of the Princess Grace Irish Library
, for instance, uses Shelagh and ranks the...
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Jennifer Johnston
JJ
says that the character Nancy Gulliver
was a sort of homage to her mother, Shelagh Richards
, even though the real and fictional women had little in common apart from their energy.
Moloney, Caitriona et al. Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices From the Field. Syracuse University Press, 2003.