Katharine Tynan
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Katharine Tynan was an Irish writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry. After her marriage in 1893 to the Trinity College scholar, writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson she usually wrote unde
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Francis Ledwidge
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Francis Edward Ledwidge was a 20th-century Irish poet. From Slane, County Meath, and sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds", he was later also known as a First World War war poet. He befriend
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…of and regular correspondent with William Butler Yeats (who may have proposed marriage and been rejected). Tynan was also later a correspondent of Francis Ledwidge. She is said to have written over 100 novels. Her Collected Poems appeared in 1930; she also wrote five autobiographical volumes. In 1888 Tynan met…
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Francis Ledwidge c. 1914
Bust of Ledwidge in Richmond Barracks
Memorial to Francis Ledwidge on the spot where he died